ANTANANARIVO.- Fondation H presents Correspondances, a solo exhibition by Roméo Mivekannin, on view from October 24, 2025, to March 21, 2026. The French-Beninese artist, invited to create an exhibition in dialogue with Malagasy history, territory, and culture, explores historical narratives, colonial representations, and spiritual transmissions within the local context.

The exhibition occupies Fondation H’s upper floor for five months, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The title Correspondances stands as a key interpretative lens for Roméo Mivekannin’s solo exhibition at Fondation H. For this project, the artist refers to colonial postcards—both intimate and ideological objects—which he critically reappropriates through textile painting. The term Correspondances also evokes echoes between different temporalities, narratives, and gestures of repair, extending to the geographic connections between France, Benin, and Madagascar—between colonial pasts and contemporary resistances, between erased figures and their reinsertion into an active memory. The exhibition thus becomes a site for dialogue between narratives, memories, and gestures of repair. Correspondances embodies a weaving of multiple voices/visions/hands: between archives and new creations, between continents and insularities, between artistic gestures and artisanal ones, between the absent and the living.

For this exhibition, the artist presents two series of works. The first, Fahatsiarovana [Memorial], takes the form of a monumental 20-meter-long installation created in collaboration with Malagasy metalworkers. It depicts asen—portable Voodoo altars—in dialogue with Malagasy funeral relics and steles. The second textile serie consists of paintings on sewn sheets infused with an elixir of his own making, inspired by colonial postcards and embellished with embroidery by Malagasy craftswomen. All the works on view—presented here for the first time—were produced between the artist’s studio in Toulouse and Antananarivo, drawing on local artisanal expertise.

Ongoing: Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities], carte blanche to Yinka Shonibare

Until March 21, 2026, Fondation H invites British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare for a carte blanche entitled Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities], marking his first major showcase on the African continent. The solo exhibition features artwork spanning 15 years of Shonibare’s career, including The African Library (2018), part of Fondation H’s permanent collection. This monumental installation comprises 6,000 books wrapped in Dutch wax print fabric, half of which are embossed with the name of a personality who shaped postcolonial Africa. The exhibition also presents a series of iconic sculptures by Yinka Shonibare.