tany fivelomana
2025
2025
tany fivelomana – between land and forest is an on-going work developed in collaboration with Malagasy artist Antsa Arimalala. The multichannel audiovisual installation invites viewers into a space formed by imaginaries and testimonies collected in Madagascar and Switzerland, two places linked through global biodiversity conservation. By layering perspectives, this work in progress explores how interventions on the land give rise to fragmented realities.
Hearing and not hearing voices, seeing and not seeing forest—a site takes shape through the tensions between care and control, presence and erasure. Approaching ‘land’ as tany fivelomana—‘land for life’—in the sense of sustaining continuity and growth, the ‘forest’ expands.
The work was developed during the ON FOREST (2024 - 2025) residency programme of Istituto Svizzero and Wyss Academy For Nature. First results were presented in a public event on the 28th of March at Istituto Svizzero in Rome.
Questioning how Western nature paradigms contribute to and are held accountable in times of ecological upheaval the work in progress seeks to further analyse the imaginaries and images that are produced by nature conservation.
Hearing and not hearing voices, seeing and not seeing forest—a site takes shape through the tensions between care and control, presence and erasure. Approaching ‘land’ as tany fivelomana—‘land for life’—in the sense of sustaining continuity and growth, the ‘forest’ expands.
The work was developed during the ON FOREST (2024 - 2025) residency programme of Istituto Svizzero and Wyss Academy For Nature. First results were presented in a public event on the 28th of March at Istituto Svizzero in Rome.
Questioning how Western nature paradigms contribute to and are held accountable in times of ecological upheaval the work in progress seeks to further analyse the imaginaries and images that are produced by nature conservation.
Filed under: intallation, artistic research, collaboration
Images: Istituto Svizzero, Antsa Arimalala, Daria Vuistiner.