Tako Taal

Tako Taal is a Welsh-­Gambian visual artist and filmmaker, currently undertaking a two­-year residency with Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh.

Taal navigates historic and neocolonial forms to consider strategies for recovery and repair. As a material performance of belonging her work evokes cited, spectral and physical bodies to undermine History, destabilise images and disrupt identity. Taal exercises her body to enter diasporic and imperial lacuna, in the belief that the labour undertaken to straddle a gap is critical to its understanding. Whispered anecdotes and artefacts from family archives are navigated and reconstructed to trace shifts that merge and split boundaries between body, land and state.

From 2016­-18 Tako was a programmer at Market Gallery, Glasgow. Her films have been in competition at the 14th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival. Recent exhibitions include; Inherited Premises, Grand Union (Birmingham) and Compound, Intermedia Gallery, CCA Glasgow.