PAST EXHIBITIONS

A Group Exhibition
27 February – 4 September 2021

Curated by
Joël Andrianomearisoa

Hakanto Contemporary
Alhambra Gallery · Ankadimbahoaka
Antananarivo · Madagascar

Beyond All You Are Mine
Au-delà de tout tu es mien
A joyful affirmation at a time when the future remains uncertain. The end feels far away.
And what of tomorrow?
A declaration of life at a moment when breath falters. How do we breathe? With whom?
An assurance of deep friendship, even as today’s world appears disoriented.
Will we dance again? A kiss?
A state of love, at a time when naïve patriotism raises its head too insistently.

Three artists step forward to affirm that we are still together — inspired and alive.
The breath of time belongs to us, and our desires extend beyond all horizons.

The first is a Malagasy force: Temandrota.
He handles earth, kneads fire, and stirs our hearts to release new resonances.
In his immersive installation Kolondoy, he sketches new territories, new playgrounds, confronting us with the questions of tomorrow and with our deepest longings.

The second —
from the Bosphorus to the banks of the Ikopa —
:mentalKLINIK blur the tracks of a game played between materiality, luminosity and sentiment.
Without geography, save that of emotion.
Between the idea of two, of three, or more…
the duo :mentalKLINIK invites us to question the notion of a new love —
and above all, the love we carry for Antananarivo.
Another love. LOVE LIKE.

And the third —
Rina Ralay-Ranaivo, whose heart is shared between Antananarivo, Berlin and elsewhere, invokes in her work Chapter 1 her fantasies, our ancestors and History itself, along an imaginary river to be crossed.
Once again: to cross water, to cross time, to cross the other, to cross borders —
to find oneself again and affirm that, beyond all things, you are mine.
…to slip into the caress of the wind and let oneself be carried away.

Joël Andrianomearisoa
February 2021