Biography

Born in 1987 in Maputo (Mozambique), Euridice Zaituna Kala lives and works in Maisons-Alfort. Her practice focuses on cultural and historical metamorphoses, as well as their manipulations and adaptations. The artist reproduces the visual vocabulary of historical archives in order to reveal their subjectivities, as well as those of the individuals they have rendered invisible. She interrogates the appropriation of colonized bodies through their representation in archives; rather than claiming their histories, she seeks to reaffirm their existence. Her approach is grounded in research and unfolds through a plurality of forms.

Graduated in experimental photography from the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg (South Africa) in 2012 and from the Asiko School in Maputo (Mozambique) in 2015, Euridice Zaituna Kala is a recipient of the Villa Vassilieff / ADAGP Fellowship (2019/2020). She was awarded the Carta Bianca First Prize (2025), was also a finalist for the Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize (2023), and a recipient of a research residency at Villa Albertine in New York (2022/2023 season). In 2023, she was in residence at the Villa Medici in Rome, conducting research on Mozambican artist Bertina Lopes.Her practice is grounded in research and unfolds through multiple forms. It is inherently protean, encompassing performances, installations, photographs, texts, sculptural landscapes, films, and sound works. She is an artist and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, and the founder and co-organizer of e.a.s.t. (Ephemeral Archival Station), a laboratory and platform for artistic research projects established in 2017.

Her exhibition Daylighting: mais c'est l'eau qui parle (2025) has been touring since its presentation at La Criée in Rennes in 2025 and is shown at La Loge in Brussels and at Kunsthalle Münster in 2026. The exhibition carries the voices of numerous struggles—ecological, feminist, and Indigenous—which she brings together and connects to her own history and to the history of the city.

Euridice Zaituna Kala, view de l’exposition Daylighting: mais c’est l’eau qui parle, La Criée Rennes, curating Sophie Kaplan, © ADAGP, Paris, 2025 Photo: Aurélien Mole, Rennes, 2025, courtesy de l’artiste & galerie Anne Barrault.