Tako Taal

A watercolour painting of a group of figures sitting around a table. At the bottom of the image in red paint is the text 'if you think about mothers with their sons,'

A watercolour painting with a blue circle containing a roundtable painted on the right hand side, and in the top left is brown circle with semi-circles surrounding it.

a dark room with an empty roundtable with empty seats

three people sat at a round table in Tramway 1 with mugs and glasses of water. behind them are three rectangular blocks, two vertical and one horizontal.

a dark theatre space. on stage there are three people sat at a roundtable.

three people sat talking at a roundtable

completely dark scene apart from an illuminated image of a person stood in front of trees.

two people sat talking to each other at a round table. there are three glasses of water on the table

wide shot of tramway 1 stage. two people are sat at a round table in the centre whilst another stands off to the side

three people on stage in tramway 1 interacting with different blocks/plinths that are on the stage, one person is sat and the other two stand

Tako Taal is an artist who works alongside spectral, cited and physical beings to undermine history and destabilise images. She works often with video and occasionally, watercolour, installation and performance to consider how artefacts and anecdotes are tangents to trace shifts that merge and split boundaries between bodies, lands and states. She lives in Glasgow.

Recent exhibitions include, Workplace Foundation, (Newcastle), Pace Gallery, London, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, Survey II, Touring UK; NADA House, New York, Talbot Rice Gallery, Scotland, Perth Museum and Art Gallery Perth, Scotland. In 2021 she co-programmed GIVE BIRTH TO ME TOMORROW a year long artist moving image festival, curated What happens to desire… for the 17th Edinburgh Art Festival and was shortlisted for LUX Scotland’s Margaret Tait Award.

Projects

Programme

Tako Taal

After Kinte

Tramway