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. Her practice is protean, encompassing performances, installations, photography, texts, sculptural landscapes, videos, and sound works. Since 2022, she has been an artist-teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes and is the founder and co-organizer of e.a.s.t. (Ephemeral Archival Station), a laboratory and platform for artistic research projects established in 2017.

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.