Warmest answer

Jessy Razafimandimby

BornNationalityBased In
1995MalagasyGenève
Biography

His multidisciplinary production encompasses painting, drawing, installations, and performance. Often, these practices converge, finding the artist manipulating fragmented decorative objects and textiles, which extend the work beyond its frame. These extensions reveal a clash between sculpture and painting, staged by Razafimandimby.The artist brings a world inherited from the past back to life, making reference to French cinema of the 1960s, jazz music, design, and postwar architecture. He pays particular attention to the history of interior decoration and ornamentation, as well as social conventions and the “good manners” traditionally linked to a conservative way of life and promoted by a classist bourgeois system.Jessy Razafimandimby’s obsessions take place principally within the home, and the practice of the artist is accordingly criss-crossed with references to domesticity and collective memory. Coexisting in his paintings are human figures and animals - but also chimerical figures that express Razafimandimby’s utopic and dystopic projections. These seem at times to merge, to mutate into new and complex forms that reveal the artist’s interest in the question of becoming. It is not as much what we become, as with whom we become it - the collective experience - that Razafimandimby interrogates.The figures detailed by the artist are extracted from a pictorial space in which they could be contained, and projected into a present, sensorial space, that of the exhibition. In such a way, he conceives joyously disordered, agitated environments, inspired by fictional domestic environments inhabited by strange masses of objects and drapery, ghostly in affect.These territories are inhabited by Razafimandimby’s fictional hosts, becoming a vestigial space in which the artist engages physically, employing the household as a metaphorical framework to question notions of taste, belonging, and power. He interrogates the ability of humans to construct relations with their environment, at times merging with it. These relations are imbued with attention, tenderness, and confusion. ...

Selected Artworks
just a sip of consolation
Jessy Razafimandimbyjust a sip of consolation, 2024100 x 73.5cmPrice on Request
I'm old and I'm still into that
Jessy RazafimandimbyI'm old and I'm still into that, 202465 x 77cmPrice on Request
Modulation
Jessy RazafimandimbyModulation, 2024147 x 63 x 3.6cm6500 EUR
I am a thorn without its rose
Jessy RazafimandimbyI am a thorn without its rose, 202450 x 53 x 16cmPrice on Request
The invincible defeat
Jessy RazafimandimbyThe invincible defeat, 202430 x 25 x 5.5cmPrice on Request
still prayers in the air
Jessy Razafimandimbystill prayers in the air, 202490 x 44cmPrice on Request
whisper sweet
Jessy Razafimandimbywhisper sweet, 202490 x 18cmPrice on Request
Yesterdays
Jessy RazafimandimbyYesterdays, 202446 x 36cm3400 EUR
Break in of little worlds
Jessy RazafimandimbyBreak in of little worlds, 202452 x 36cm3700 EUR
I'd rather drink my tears
Jessy RazafimandimbyI'd rather drink my tears, 202447 x 56cmPrice on Request
You know I had to cheat
Jessy RazafimandimbyYou know I had to cheat, 202490 x 70cm6700 EUR
Meadow Meeting
Jessy RazafimandimbyMeadow Meeting, 202490 x 18cm4500 EUR
The first lake
Jessy RazafimandimbyThe first lake, 202460 x 50cmPrice on Request
Warmest answer
Jessy RazafimandimbyWarmest answer, 202556 x 32cmPrice on Request
The rules are overwhelmed
Jessy RazafimandimbyThe rules are overwhelmed, 202546 x 41cmPrice on Request
Biscuits and words
Jessy RazafimandimbyBiscuits and words, 202532 x 54.5cm4000 EUR
In your mirror
Jessy RazafimandimbyIn your mirror, 202518 x 23cmPrice on Request
Shelter
Jessy RazafimandimbyShelter, 202532 x 24cmPrice on Request
Through a narrow perimeter of life
Jessy RazafimandimbyThrough a narrow perimeter of life, 202450 x 55 x 42cm6200 EUR
s’adosser à ce qui importe
Jessy Razafimandimbys’adosser à ce qui importe, 202231.5 x 25cm1700 EUR
tout coule de partout, ça ne pouvait pas attendre
Jessy Razafimandimbytout coule de partout, ça ne pouvait pas attendre, 202239 x 28.5cm1700 EUR
le quart d’une célébrité
Jessy Razafimandimbyle quart d’une célébrité, 202236.5 x 25.5cm1700 EUR
une célébrité familiale
Jessy Razafimandimbyune célébrité familiale, 202218 x 23.5cmPrice on Request
dans un complexe d’autres fois
Jessy Razafimandimbydans un complexe d’autres fois, 202221 x 15cm1100 EUR
Can't throw down what I want
Jessy RazafimandimbyCan't throw down what I want, 2024100 x 20cmPrice on Request
Gallery Representation