Euridice Kala

Euridice Kala (Maputo, 1987) is an artist currently based in Paris. She was trained as a photographer at the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg. Her interests in history take her to spaces of metamorphoses, mythology, cultural manipulations i.e. culture as power, etc. She’s currently working towards her first solo exhibition ‘Scores of Labor’ in November 2018, as well as been invited to curate the Boda Boda Video Art Festival 2018. Other performances and exhibitions include: Feedback, Art Africa and the 1980s, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth (2018), Being Her(e), Banco Economico, Luanda (2017), Infecting the City festival, Cape Town (2017) and Mistake! Mistake! said the rooster…and stepped down from the duck, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon (2017), Co-habitar, Casa da America Latina, Lisbon (2016),. Her work has previously been shown at, among others, 12th Dak’Art Biennial, Senegal (2016); 3rd Casablanca Biennial (2016). Kala has been awarded several residencies, most recently at the Maison des Arts George & Claude Pompidou, Cajarc (2018), Centro Cultural Português Maputo (2016) and at Hangar, Lisbon (2016). She was a founding member of PAN!C, a platform for independent contemporary art spaces on the African Continent. And is the founder of the entity e.a.st (Ephemeral Archival Station) a laboratory for artistic research practice.