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Almine Rech

Joël Andrianomearisoa Things and Something to Remember Before Daylight

Mar 9 — Apr 17, 2024 | Paris, Turenne

Opening on Saturday, March 9, 2024 from 6 to 8 pm

After his presentation at the gallery in September, Almine Rech is pleased to present Things and Something to Remember Before Daylight, Joël Andrianomearisoa’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, curated by Jérôme Sans. On view from March 9 to April 17, 2024.

Best known for investigating the materiality of feelings, the artist explores the universality of human experience, mostly using abstraction to build layers of complex narratives.

Exceptionally, the show brings together Joël Andrianomearisoa’s extraordinarily diverse variety of preferred media to, in a sense, lay bare his vocabulary. Neon lights, sound, poetry, paintings, tapestries, sculptures, everyday objects - like so many elements of his visual language, brought together in a narrow relationship with handicrafts. The exhibition is not so much a celebration of savoir-faire than an investigation of faire, or the act of making, in what appears as an ode to manual work rather than the prefabricated or industrialised. In keeping with the cold, timeless aesthetics of Minimalism, the artist – albeit paradoxically – successfully includes gesture, individuality, voice, poetry and emotion.

— Jérôme Sans, critic and curator

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Selected artworks

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Dans les songes et la captivité des creux de la peau tant adorée, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Dans les songes et la captivité des creux de la peau tant adorée, 2024

    Tapisserie tissée dans les Ateliers Robert Four à Carthage - Raphia
    195 x 135 cm
    77 x 53 in

  • De la nuit noire de l’oubli jusq’aux notes imprévisible de nos destins, 2024

    De la nuit noire de l’oubli jusq’aux notes imprévisible de nos destins, 2024

    Tapisserie tissée dans les Ateliers Robert Four à Carthage - Laine noire
    195 x 135 cm
    77 x 53 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Le mystère insondable des geographies sentimentales, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Le mystère insondable des geographies sentimentales, 2024

    Tapisserie tissée dans les Ateliers Robert Four à Carthage - Laine blanche
    195 x 135 cm
    77 x 53 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      La virginité des sentiments, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa La virginité des sentiments, 2024

    Textiles / lames
    130 x 90 cm
    51 x 35 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      La matérialité des sentiments, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa La matérialité des sentiments, 2024

    Textiles / lames
    130 x 90 cm
    51 x 35 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Things and something to remember before daylight Act V, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Things and something to remember before daylight Act V, 2024

    Textiles / lames
    260 x 180 cm
    102 1/2 x 71 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Un chant d’oiseau au refrain solitaire, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Un chant d’oiseau au refrain solitaire, 2024

    Painted metal and silk
    130 x 90 cm
    51 x 35 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Archives of a sentimental territory, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Archives of a sentimental territory, 2024

    Painted metal and wood
    130 x 90 cm
    51 x 35 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Entre nous, entrelacs et ornements Act I, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Entre nous, entrelacs et ornements Act I, 2024

    Textile / Broderie
    130 x 90 cm
    51 x 35 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Entre nous, entrelacs et ornements Act II, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Entre nous, entrelacs et ornements Act II, 2024

    Textile / Broderie
    130 x 90 cm
    51 x 35 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Sentimental and fragile, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Sentimental and fragile, 2024

    Textile
    40 x 50 cm
    16 x 19 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Remember, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Remember, 2024

    Textile
    40 x 50 cm
    16 x 19 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Something, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Something, 2024

    Neon light
    20 x 50 cm
    8 x 19 1/2 in

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa,                                      Thing, 2024

    Joël Andrianomearisoa Thing, 2024

    Neon light
    20 x 50 cm
    8 x 19 1/2 in

Videos

  • Joël Andrianomearisoa: Things and Something to Remember Before Daylight