Turakella Editha Gyindo

Turakella Editha Gyindo (Tura) is a multi disciplinary Tanzanian artist working with painting, performances, video and physical installations. Inspired by human nature and its adaptation to the new changing world, she calls into question the collective preconception and the colonial influence surround intersectionality, identity, belonging. Tura imagine a human as being whose identity can’t be pinned down to rigid social intersectional associations, one whose place in a society can be claimed not only through personal experiences, a human whose connection to the existence isn’t usually found in body experience.

After earning her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Processing Engineering from Université de Badji Mokhtar, Algeria. She transitioned into the arts to become a practicing artist. In 2021, she joined the Nafasi Art Space Academy for a Curatorial Practise and Art Management Program. Since then, she participated in several exhibitions and residency programs including The Cité international des Arts – Paris, The East Africa Biennale, FNB Art Joburg South Africa, Abu Dhabi Art and Solo exhibitions in Dar es salaam and France.

Tura’s current research focuses on the connection between the body, memory and the decolonial body cleansing rituals. Tura is interested in the questions of what does the body remember? where does the body carry memory? how does materiality serve as an archive for these memories. This research unfolds through physical installations, performances and public interventions in Dar es salaam and beyond