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DECAY : AN ODE TO THE IMPERMANENT
BURO STEDELIJK . CENTRAL SPACE . AMSTERDAM . THE NETHERLANDS
MAY 25 – JULY 25. 2023
Curator : Azu Nwagbogu and Rita Ouédrago
Falling, crumbling, rotting and decomposing so as to grow. What are the ethics we bring to concepts of preservation and decay? We nourish and flourish through embracing the discomfort of decay. Decay as the fruitful ground upon which we stand. The ongoing process of decay, of rebuilding and blossoming. Matter changes, time changes. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown and the experiment, and observe what grows. Death not as the end but rather as the precursor of life. Through this notion of decay, we want to reimagine and reorient the institution. Decay in this respect could provoke discomfort, but it is precisely this feeling of discomfort that we wish to encourage people to become more comfortable with.
© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
“why decay ?
A state or
A process of decomposition to a statement of hope or desire
From the darker side of our sentiments there will be a new beautiful melody
From destruction we can a built a new emotions.
From tragedy there will be certain kind of perfection.
À partir d’une perte il y a toujours des retrouvailles
Inside absence there is always a presence
To confirm all of those declamations perfume is the medium.
Perfume comes from the process of decomposition
And from this decay we can create new fantasies.
Rano maso rano masina rano manitra.
Process
10 paintings
61 days
61 fragrances
1 space
At the beginning each painting will be almost virgin. Black lines on the new playground.
Everyday each painting will be sprayed with one perfume chosen from the library of fragrances.
The idea is to create from the decomposition of the perfume and the painting a new visual aspect of hopes and desires.
The audience will deal with the evolution of all the installation and
Again from dirt we can create beauty and from decay we can build peace. ”
Joël Andrianomearisoa
PRESTIGE SINGAPORE
THE CRAFT ISSUE
MAY 2023
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FÊTONS LE PRINTEMPS
SAINT-VINCENT-DE-PAUL . PARIS . FRANCE
2023
A monumental artwork QUAND SOUDAIN LA MÉLANCOLIE DU PRINTEMPS RÉVEILLE LE TERRAIN DE NOS CŒURS by the artist Joël Andrianomearisoa, specially conceived for the event, exhibited throughout the weekend as part of the second edition of the festival “Fêtons le Printemps”.
CRAFTS COUNCIL
MARCH 2023
From Madagascar to Morocco_ why Joe_l An.. .puts craft traditions in the spotlight (1)
OUR LAND JUST LIKE A DREAM . 2023
Our land just like a dream . MACAAL . 2023
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Graphic design : Baptiste Piguet . Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
JOSEP THE WORLD AND I . 2023
Josep the world and I . Centre Grau-Garriga d’Art Tèxtil Contemporani . 2023
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Graphic design : Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa . Anna Bustins
ARTNET
FEBRUARY 2023
LE QUOTIDIEN DE L’ART
FEBRUARY 2023
MY HEART BELONGS TO THE OTHER
CHURCH PROJECTS . CAPE TOWN . SOUTH AFRICA
2023
The other is a conversation with the land on the other side.
Land Madagascar.
Land not only perceived as a territory but also as an intrigue.
Rather a scenario named the other.
A display around the desire towards the other, the vital dependance towards the other.
© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
The other is a mystery yet the other attracts us
The other is intriguing yet the other inspires us
The other is a stranger yet the other calls out to us
The other is a geography and this land is calling us
The project itself is a metaphor
without giving the land its name
Thus the presence of the other, of others
The other of names full of symbols
To read, to quote, to dress and undress
The other is a blind map drown in the darkness of our desires.
LEGENDS OF DAYLIGHT
Joël Andrianomearisoa
350 x 500 CM
Collage papier . Technique mixte
2023
LEGENDS OF DAYLIGHT
Mandarin Oriental Marrakech . 2023
Courtesy of the artist
© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
CHRISTIAN DIOR : DESIGNER OF DREAMS
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART . TOKYO . JAPAN
2023
Curator : Florence Müller
Echoing this presentation (Dior Coloroma), a work by the Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa is also featured, made of 1,000 Dior scarves, which creates a poetic landscape using textile and colour as a universal language.
© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa
Joël Andrianomearisoa’s The Labyrinth of Passions is an immersive installation presented in this year’s Audemars Piguet VIP lounge at ARCOmadrid 2016. It consists of large paper pieces suspended in such numbers so as to saturate the room, obliging visitors to force their way in. It evokes games of impossible love, ultimate caresses of black or white fabrics, with no other frustration that innacessible body.
With conceptual references to Oscar Wilde’s letter to his lover De Profundis, The Labyrinth of Passions represents the futility of love to reveal itself “from the depths”. It speaks to obscurity and death, failure and ultimately disappointment; in short, the very fabric of contemporary life. The transition is complete, and the obscured subject is manifested only as crack or a broken mirror that forbids representation. A distant memory cries in the dark.
Leading the viewer almost blindly through a journey from light to darkness, from the primeval dawn of life to mysterious, indescribable loss, Andrianomearisoa continues his earlier engagement with the realities of love, their crude manifestations of borderless desire bound up with the most abysmal faces of the world: violence, domination, longing, cruelty, effacement.
In this strange journey, surfaces become the warm archi-textures of a condition, in a site of contradictions. The black and white monochromes are for Andrianomearisoa not a terminal end, but a monologue and a diary of personal stories tightly sewn into compact wholes by words and gestures – a universality of sentiments. Wilde’s De Profundis, written under emotional isolation and the endurance of physical labor, is more than a testament to love and devotion; it is also an epic of liberation in the midst of discrimination, criminal libel, and exclusion. The artist, inspired by the naturalism of the Victorian age, is keen to describe the complexities of love – and of the world – as dark forces, following Wilde more in the rhythmic pattern of the letter, through a desperate cry of life.
As an artist, Andrianomearisoa proceeds in the manner of a surveyor and ethnographer: mapping out categories of thought and social reality sculpted into immersive environments that simultaneously flatter and deceive. The materials are raw, but infinitely delicate, almost to the point of breaking, in a self-contained chaos ready to overflow an entire universe of experience. This experience, however boundless, is not circumscribed by aesthetic purity or formal properties: It is compromised by the dramas of the political body, the global economy and contemporary alienation. The work attempts to confront us with the emotional vacuity of an uncertain, liquid world.
This object-book Labyrinth of Passions, was designed by the artist as a memory of the project, and a tribute to life itself. It is a tactile and visual experience that celebrates the present moment and the ones to come, gathering in its central body a poem by the artist that contains the concepts that inspired his monumental installation.
Sabrina Amrani
NIRIN
2020
EATS AT LES ABBATOIRS
2018
spoerri
BIENALSUR
2017
bienalsur 2
ESSENTIEL PAYSAGE
2017
AFRICA NOW
2014
TEXTILE LANGUAGES
2014
A COLLECTIVE DIARY
2010
FLOW
2008
flow
AFRICA REMIX
2005
ROUBAIX PHARE TEXTILE
2004
ON A NEVER ENDING HORIZON A FUTURE NOSTALGIA TO KEEP THE PRESENT ALIVE
NOOR FESTIVAL . RIYADH . SAUDI ARABIA
2022
Curator : Hervé Mikaeloff
From Antananarivo to Paris, from mixed-media installation to Dior collaboration, Andrianomearisoa’s work is simply magnetizing. Inspired by the cadence of the city, his textural work triggers an emotional response in audiences of all ages. Unsurprisingly, he has been invited to collaborate with some of the world’s greatest names over the years.
ON A NEVER ENDING HORIZON A FUTURE NOSTALGIA TO KEEP THE PRESENT ALIVE
Using neon lights and metal, On a never ending horizon a future nostalgia to keep the present alive was commissioned for Noor Riyadh and speaks of love, hope and dreams. Or to use the artist’s words: “a sign, a light, a poem… The horizon is the playground for our eyes, but most of all, our dreams. Here lies the theatre of our affections, but most of all, our hopes. On the horizon is where we call for a new future whilst we dance on the wave of the present time, following the moment’s steps. Light is the essential ingredient that allows us to dream of other worlds, other times.”
With this installation, Andrianomearisoa invites you to question time, your horizons and, as always, your emotions and desires.
Hervé Mikaeloff
© Ammar Abd Rabbo