A new installation reveals a wooden sculpture of a Sakalava couple 17th-century statue and the majestic "Lamba mpanjaka," created in 1998 by the maître tisserand Martin Rakotoarimanana. Creation movement. It represents the revival of a pre-colonial textile tradition developed by weavers in the highlands, since weaving was long considered a feminine vocation.
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Joël Andrianomearisoa est un artiste contemporain malgache, né le 6 juillet 1977, à Antananarivo, Madagascar. Il vit et travaille principalement entre Antananarivo et Paris.
