Tako Taal - At the shore, everything touches

This catalogue is published as part of Glasgow-based artist Tako Taal's solo exhibition at DCA this winter. The publication contains newly commissioned writing by Kandace Siobhan Walker, alongside full colour images of video stills, artefacts from Taal's personal archive and photographs of the exhibition. Tako Taal was born in Wales and lives in Glasgow. She graduated in 2015 from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. She was a 2019 RAW Academy fellow at RAW Material Company, Dakar and Artist in Residence at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2018-20. Taal’s work often considers the paradoxes of black subjectivities, and her artistic practice evokes cited, spectral and physical bodies to undermine history, destabilise images and disrupt ideas around identity. At stake in her work are the psychic structures of colonial relations and the question of how vivid they remain in the present. Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and filmmaker from Wales and elsewhere. Her writing has appeared in bath magg, The Guardian and The Good Journal, among others. Her most recent short film Last Days of the Girl's Kingdom was produced in collaboration with the ICA and DAZED, and aired on Channel 4's Random Acts. In 2021, she was the winner of The White Review Poet's Prize and a recipient of an Eric Gregory award. She lives in London.