YU NA MI SREFI
Solo Exhibition, OSCAM, Amsterdam, 2025
Solo Exhibition, OSCAM, Amsterdam, 2025
Teaser: Yu Na Mi Srefi (Documentary, 25 min.)
*Full screener available upon request.*
In the interdisciplinary installation YU NA MI SREFI, Terra Isis Gitane reflects on black fatherhood within Surinamese and Afrodiasporic communities, grappling with the lasting impact of colonialism, also reflected in the so-called 'broken family' structures.
Through film, photography and, poetry, Terra researches what happens when stories of fathers are reduced to a singular narrative, and explores how grief can transform into growth. A shared exploration for understanding and the healing of generational trauma, creating space for a deeper and more honest conversation.
Director - Terra Isis Gitane
Director of Photography - Boris Marijn
Editor Boris Marijn & Terra Isis Gitane
Music Production & Sound Design - Julian Tjon Sack Kie
YU NA MI SREFI poetry bundle
16 pages, originally written in Sranan Tongo, translated to Dutch and English
including cyanotype prints on pangi
Solo Exhibition, Terra Isis Gitane x YOAK, OSCAM
Amsterdam, 2025
REDEFINING THE ABSENCE OF BELONGING
Amsterdam, 2024
Group Exhibition, Afro-European Sessions
Paradiso x VPRO x OSCAM
'In conversation with the Tides' Accra,
Ghana 2023
'Morning Glory' Busua, Ghana 2023
'Post-colonial Patterns' São Tomé and Príncipe 2024
'Becoming' Freedom Skatepark, Ghana 2023
The Afro-European Exhibition
In dialogue with the VPRO docu-series The Afro-European, this exhibition holds space for both the complex realities and the unyielding joy embedded within Afro-diasporic identities. Alongside artists Anthony Ngoya and Tengbeh Kamara, Terra explores home, memory, and belonging.
Across four visual encounters, her work refuses to let identity be defined solely by systemic weight, anchoring it instead in reclaimed space and the radical joy of being (irrevocably ourselves.)
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As your eyes familiarise the curve in every lining,
the concept of home branches into an array of passageways
There will be space to shelter in the belonging of your longing
In the unfolding embrace of growing pains
seeds will grow into trees, transforming grieve into tears
In the embrace of unknown soil exists redefining
every curve of finding
In the embrace of unknown soil belonging shelters longing
In the embrace of unknown soil lies the remembrance that
home is within, even without its tangible presence.