PAST EXHIBITIONS

A Group Exhibition
8 February 2020 – 9 February 2021

Curated by
Joël Andrianomearisoa

Hakanto Contemporary
Alhambra Gallery · Ankadimbahoaka
Antananarivo · Madagascar

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I am nothing.
I shall never be anything.
I cannot wish to be anything.
Apart from that, I carry within me all the dreams of the world.
— Fernando Pessoa

Here is here. From here, we look at the world. From here, we also dream the world.
Let us imagine, let us speak of dreams, let us dream — for it is through dreaming that we may affirm a new Malagasy breath, through its contemporary creative forms, in dialogue with artists and modes of expression from elsewhere.

There are no fixed media in this proposition. The exhibition affirms a polyphony of forms, playing with time, its illusions and its realities.
The menu is not fixed. The menu knows no borders.
Chef Lalaina Ravelomanana sets the tone by revisiting a popular Malagasy dish,
to the rhythm of Kristel’s Nofy rock.
Here, context becomes play, diversity, and rule.
The eternal duo from Istanbul, :mentalKLINIK, reinvent a new love, a new game of love,
facing the newly drawn words of Môssieur Njo.
Across a diversity of lines, young designer Domi Sanji blends his lands, in confrontation with Alexandre Gourçon and his infinite folds.

Ramily, the father of contemporary Malagasy photography, somewhat forgotten, returns to the light through his emblematic series between desert and vegetal abundance.
Visual artist Donn installs his work between nightmare and tenderness, as choreographer Judith Manantenasoa speaks of the gentleness of chaos.
All of this is bathed in our wild Malagasy melancholy, through a continuous literary dialogue between Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo and Elie Rajaonarison.

Improbable encounters, meant to energise and to surprise.
Craft meets song.
Photography becomes a dress.
Words turn into canvases.
Let us weave literature, ignite fires, dance architecture, speak couture, dress the present.
Let us embroider cuisine and breathe in flowers.
Dreams are my reality — another kind of reality. The dreams of Iarivo.
The dreams of the world.
Let us drift.
Let us dream.
For here, in Madagascar, we carry all the dreams of the world.

Joël Andrianomearisoa
January 2019