Joël Andrianomearisoa, OUR LAND JUST LIKE A DREAM
Joël Andrianomearisoa, OUR LAND JUST LIKE A DREAM
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Musée d’Art Contemporain Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, from 24 September 2022 to 16 July 2023.
Directed by Meriem Berrada
With texts by Othman Lazraq, Meriem Berrada, Morad Montazami, Salima Naji, Meryem Sebti, Jean Loup Pivin, Storm Janse Van Rensburg.
Co-published with the Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL)
With the support of: Groupe Alliances Développement Immobilier, Fondation Alliances, Fonds Yavarhoussen, Primo Marella Galleria
Publication release: February 2023
Bilingual edition (French / English) 20x 30 cm
228 pages (122 ill.)
ISBN: 979-10-93781-28-0
39,00 €
A polyphonic exhibition catalogue, this work is so thanks to all the energies and dialogues that the multidisciplinary artist Joël Andrianomearisoa was able to catalyse for his exhibition at MACAAL (with other artists, craftsmen, but also with voices and souls). On this occasion, with the collaboration of the curator Meriem Berrada, all the works were produced locally in Morocco, in shared circuits, with a permanent questioning of form, function and material… without forgetting what remains in our memory, our lunar and terrestrial reveries. The authors of the catalogue (Salima Naji, Jean-Loup Pivin, Storm Janse van Rensburg…) address the poetic, technical and anthropological aspects of such a singular journey. Developed between his native Antananarivo and Aubusson, via Udaipur, Joël Andrianomearisoa’s “weavings” (of materials, forms and relationships) take on their full meaning, for a moment, in Marrakech.