Malala Adrialavidrazana
1971 (Madagascar)
Living in : Paris
Working in : Pars
Artist's webSite
Malala Andrialavidrazana is a Franco-Malagasy artist and photographer based in Paris. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette (1996), she began her artistic career with the series d’Outre-monde, which won her the HSBC Photography Award in 2003. She later created other notable series such as Tanindrazana / The Ancestors’ Land (2005) and Echoes (from Indian Ocean) (2011–2013), reflecting her travels across the Indian Ocean, Asia, and Latin America. During these journeys, she documented the daily lives and intimate moments of the people she encountered, aiming to reveal hidden aspects of their environments and to capture “the slightest tremors of a life without geography or prejudice,” as she describes it. Passionate about anthropology, history, and geography, Andrialavidrazana has expanded her practice over time by collecting archival materials from the 19th and 20th centuries, including atlases, postcards, stamps, record covers, ethnographic engravings, and banknotes.
Living in : Paris
Working in : Pars
Artist's webSite
Malala Andrialavidrazana is a Franco-Malagasy artist and photographer based in Paris. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette (1996), she began her artistic career with the series d’Outre-monde, which won her the HSBC Photography Award in 2003. She later created other notable series such as Tanindrazana / The Ancestors’ Land (2005) and Echoes (from Indian Ocean) (2011–2013), reflecting her travels across the Indian Ocean, Asia, and Latin America. During these journeys, she documented the daily lives and intimate moments of the people she encountered, aiming to reveal hidden aspects of their environments and to capture “the slightest tremors of a life without geography or prejudice,” as she describes it. Passionate about anthropology, history, and geography, Andrialavidrazana has expanded her practice over time by collecting archival materials from the 19th and 20th centuries, including atlases, postcards, stamps, record covers, ethnographic engravings, and banknotes.
