STANDING PINE

STANDING PINE is pleased to present Le Palais Des Vents (The Palace of Winds), a solo exhibition by Joël Andrianomearisoa, opening on Saturday, 31 October. The exhibition will feature the textile series of the same title, which incorporates kimono from Kyoto and was first presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, in 2026.

Rooted in Madagascar—an African country that is also connected to Asia through aspects of food culture and embodied experience—and also based in Paris, Andrianomearisoa has created works that traverse multiple disciplines against a background of entangled histories and cultures. In doing so, he gives form to abstract emotions and memories that cannot be fully expressed in words.

For this series, the artist brings together a number of kimono that he personally selected and collected in Kyoto and carried to Madagascar, where he joins torn fragments of cloth with images and geographic contours derived from the island. Having long pursued textiles as a central axis of his practice, and having treated the very act of gathering materials as an integral part of his making, Andrianomearisoa approaches cloth not merely as a support, but as a medium that holds touch, labour and memory. Through cutting and joining, repetition and layering, he brings together disparate fabrics marked by the traces of two countries and cultures, generating new narratives. Drawing on the perspective shaped by his studies in architecture, he reworks these elements as three-dimensional paintings in which difference is understood not as a boundary, but as a form of connection.

Andrianomearisoa takes up the simplicity and elegance of the kimono, weaving its lines one by one. Over time, these lines give tactile presence to emotions that should remain beyond touch, crystallising invisible feelings as matter within the world. What emerges is both history, as a single overarching continuum, and histories, as innumerable living narratives. Time and memory, layered upon one another, quietly yet unmistakably take shape within the space. We hope that this work will offer an opportunity to reconsider distant lands and the unspoken connections that run between them.

Dates: Saturday, 31 October – Saturday, 28 November 2026 
Hours: 12:00–18:00, Tuesday to Saturday
Closed: Sundays, Mondays, and national holidays
Opening Reception: Saturday, 31 September, 17:00–19:00

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Joël Andrianomearisoa expresses himself through various mediums and materials, seeking to give form to non-explicit and abstract narrations. From sculpture to installation, from craftsmanship to writing, from textile to architecture, he adopts a plural approach inspired by his Malagasy roots but also by the world and its multiple geographies.

Imbued with complex emotional experiences, his work gives rise to delicate and tension-filled creations, mirroring the breaths of our lives. A serie of exercises in constant evolution … continuous explorations of the materiality of emotions.

Born in 1977 in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Joël Andrianomearisoa lives and works across multiple territories: Paris, Antananarivo, and Magnat-l’Étrange. He graduated from the École Spéciale d’Architecture (Paris) as an architect in 2003.

Joël Andrianomearisoa has presented his work in several prestigious institutions worldwide and in the context of major contemporary art events: he has exhibited at Kunsthalle Praha in Prague, Dallas Contemporary, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, the Macaal in Marrakech, the Dakar Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Hamburger Bahnhof, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

In 2019, he represented Madagascar for the first time at the 58th Venice Biennale with a monumental installation for its national pavilion.
His works are part of the collections of the Zeitz Mocaa (Cape Town), the Smithsonian (Washington DC), the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York), the Sztuki Museum (Łódź), and the Yavarhoussen Collection (Antananarivo). In 2025, three iconic artworks are part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.

In 2020, Joël Andrianomearisoa founded an independent space in Antananarivo dedicated to artists, in collaboration with his accomplice Hasnaine Yavarhoussen. Hakanto Contemporary embodies his own commitment to the creative scene of his native country.

Throughout his career, he has received several awards, including the Arco Madrid Audemars Piguet Prize in 2016. In 2019, the Republic of Madagascar named him a Chevalier of Arts and Letters, and in 2024, France conferred upon him the title of Chevalier of Arts and Letters. In 2025, Joël Andrianomearisoa is named Commandeur of Arts and Letters, in Madagascar. In 2026, Andrianomearisoa is among the finalists of the 26th edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize

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