NADA House 2021

Halo Nevus is an urgent film that has as a protagonist the artist’s birthmark. The film follows the process of the birthmark’s depigmentation and dissipation over the course of five years. Using this metaphor, Taal explores the yearning for a home country in a critical and pivotal moment of civic rupture. Borrowing from Gambian folklore, the work looks to matrilineal relationships and the boundaries that shape national identities.

Tako Taal is an artist-filmmaker living in Glasgow, Scotland. At stake in her artistic practice are the psychic structures of colonial relations and the question of how vivid they remain in the present.