Euridice Kala wins artist residency for Visual Arts and Photography in Lisbon

Login

Register

http://www.clubofmozambique.com/

Euridice Kala wins artist residency for Visual Arts and Photography in Lisbon

12:55 CAT | 12 Apr 2016

Mozambican contemporary artist Euridice Getulio Kala is the winner of the second art residency program for visual arts and photography, created in 2015 by Lisbon municipality and the Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo.

The jury consisting of guest independent curator Jürgen Bock, Lisbon municipality’s Miguel Caissotti and Alexandra Pinho from the Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo unanimously chose Kala’s proposed work for its relevance to the program and as an effective investigative research project.

In its deliberation, the jury also found that Kala’s artistic path “is consistent with the proposal presented, it being clear that the type of program that she will undergo will bolster her career in contemporary artistic creation”.

The residency lasts for a month and is aimed at Mozambican visual artists and photographers who already have a reputation in the area and who can develop a project which is consistent with the applicant’s artistic journey, relevant to the relationship with the city of Lisbon and of recognized interest in the context of contemporary art.

Euridice Kala will be an artist in residence in Lisbon between 19 May and 19 June this year.

Eurydice Getulio Kala was born in Maputo in 1987 and completed her Diploma in Information Technology at Unisa, South Africa in 2008. She held the Photography Course at the prestigious art gallery Market Photo Workshop, having obtained the Advanced Certificate in 2012. Kala has held several residencies and workshops among which stand out the Fall Curatorial Intensive (New York, USA, 2011), the Creative Workshop Bonendale (Douala, Cameroon, 2014), Foundation Blachere (Apt, France, 2014), Asiko (Maputo, 2015) and Southern Artists (Lisbon, 2016).

Euridice Kala is also one of the artists invited to participate in the Dakar Biennial of 2016 (Senegal).

Who is Eurídice Kala?

Euridice Kala lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an independent artist and curator.

Her practice involves photography, video, performance and space installations and is located between spaces of arrival, departure and return. It also entails a quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals/procedures. Within this spaces, as a participant and at times observer of these rituals, there is no finality to the initial thought the character might occupy in the end. Kala’s work invites the viewer to become a voyeur and input meaning to it through projecting their own personal experience, and finalise the artistic experience.

Her projects revolve around challenges faced within a social fibre that affect her, or her personal life experiences as a black woman in Africa (with focus to Mozambique and South Africa). She engages with processes taking the form of indirect responses further deconstructing complexities that could be limited to universal binaries.

As a curator, she’s been broadly working within Afro-centric contexts. With projects such as PAN!C– a platform for interchangeable new ideas across the African continent, which stimulates projects such Boda Boda Lounge – a transcontinental video art project.

Source: O País / www.asikoartschool.org