
Terra Isis Gitane (1999) is an interdisciplinary storyteller whose practice is a somatic and visual inquiry into the reciprocity between humans, water bodies, and the broader elemental nature.
Centering her inner world as a compass, her work functions as a living archive of somatic memory, landscape, and space. Through analogue photography, film, ink, poetry, and sound, she holds space for the multifaceted layers of memory. Rooted in creating a threshold for transcendence, while allowing identity, heritage, and self-realisation to unfold as an opaque, autonomous, and uncompromised presence.
2021-2025 BA Allround Creative Concept Developer, Academie Artemis, Amsterdam
Summer 2026 - Developing and facilitating a Summerschool for the elderly at the Gibraltar Community Center
2025 Interactive filmscreening at Huis Van De Wijk Lydia Community Center
2023-2024 Internship Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
EDUCATION
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
EXHIBITIONS
2025 — Feature article "Welke invloed had een afwezige vader op het leven van kunstenaar Terra Isis Gitane?", Het Parool
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2025 — Radio interview on artistic research and the exhibition Yu Na Mi Srefi, De Nieuws BV, NPO Radio 1
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2025 — Podcast episode Voor ik vergeet (#7: Yu Na Mi Srefi), hosted by Bintou Kamara, Amsterdam FM
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