Miracle sur ce qui a du cœur, 2021
The shop composed for us by Jessy Razafimandimby is a still life, an inhabitable work around which the body organizes itself. It is a soft and familiar painting where we feel at home. Embodied, the objects offered to us by Razafimandimby accompany us in our everyday liturgies. The shop broaches the notion of caring forever and always for our interior spaces – the domestic space, of course, but also the one in our hearts. Placing harvest bouquets there, the kind found in fields in late-summer. Hanging a few watercolours here and there. Occasionally offering flowers, to make someone’s day. In a word, tidying up one’s heart. Meticulously.
Alexandra Romy
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Jessy Razafimandimby is a Malagasy-Swiss artist who lives and works in Geneva. Formally, his work draws references from a bygone world, namely interior design, modern music and 1960s to 1980s-era cinema. His drawings and paintings feature baroque imagery with organic shapes, in which familiar and occasionally familial figures coexist. Recently, he has become interested in the history of fashion and set design, while exploring the possibilities of mise en scène as a concept. This year, he won the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Prize.
Among his recent exhibitions, in 2021: Salon Art-O-Rama (Marseille); Salon Suisse at the Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice); Kunsthaus (Langenthal); La vraie vie (Geneva); Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva). In 2020: La Becque (Vevey); Bad House Festival (Helsinki). In 2019, Arsenic (Lausanne); espace 1.1 (Basel). Upcoming exhibitions in 2022: Galerie Sans titre (Paris); Galerie A.ROMY (Zurich); Liste (Basel).
©Isabelle Meister (portrait)
©Thomas Maisonnasse
Arcade provided by the Naef Immobilier
Jessy Razafimandimby
l’esprit chimérique des poussières