Mananjina
RAZAFINDRALAMBO
Visual Art
Originally Published: 19 December 2025
Mananjina is a digital creation produced as a unique edition. The composition, dominated by intense reds, creates a dialogue between Malagasy sacred elements—sampy (ritual objects), figures of warriors, and former Malagasy priests—within a recomposed symbolic space. This digital collage draws on historical narratives to explore the persistence of memory.
Through this work, I express the conviction that “even the wounds and scars of the past continue to irrigate and illuminate the path of my community and my nation, until the fulfillment of our destiny.” Through its visual symbolism and deliberate use of color, Mananjina embodies my approach: revealing how African identity draws its strength from collective memory, while honoring our roots, culture, and intellectual values.
The Creative
RAZAFINDRALAMBO
Jean-Nirina Razafindralambo is a contemporary Malagasy visual artist whose practice, centered on collage and mixed media, interrogates constructions of memory, collective identity, and value within a postcolonial and globalized society.
His work draws on the aesthetics of reclamation and fragmentation to recompose visual narratives from the remnants of mass consumption—such as magazine paper, stamps, and administrative documents—and symbols of economic power, including banknotes and barcodes. By layering these everyday materials onto raw supports like masonite or cardboard, he develops a critical archaeology of the present, where portraiture and the human figure become sites of struggle and resilience.