1987, Maputo (MZ).

Lives and works in Maisons-Alfort (FR).

Euridice Zaituna Kala is a Mozambican artist-teacher, whose work focuses on cultural and historical metamorphoses, manipulations and adaptations. The artist reproduces the visual vocabulary of historical archives to reveal its subjectivities, but also those they have made invisible. She questions the appropriation of black bodies through their representation within archives; but rather than capturing their history, it attempts to reaffirm their existence. Kala is interested in contemporary art based on artistic research, with an expression in plural forms, a practice that presents itself as interdisciplinary and protean (performances, installations, photographs, texts, videos, sculptures/landscapes, sound works…).

A graduate in experimental photography from the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg (ZA) in 2012 and from the Asiko School in Maputo (MZ) in 2015, Euridice Zaituna Kala is a finalist for the Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize (2023), a laureate of a research residency at the Villa Albertine in New York (2022/2023 season), the Villa Medici residency in Rome (2023), and the Villa Vassilieff / ADAGP scholarship (2019/2020).