ANTANANARIVO
DECEMBER 12, 2025 - JANUARY 11, 2026
Fondation H is pleased to present Écho : les murmures des arbres [Echo: the whispers of the trees], the first solo exhibition of Rado Ramilison, runner-up of the 9th edition of Prix Paritana.
A self-taught artist born in 1997 in Antananarivo, where he lives and works, Rado Ramilison began expressing himself through drawing at a young age before expanding his practice to painting, sculpture, and design. An observer of the visible world and attentive to the invisible, he is interested in the psychological and spiritual dimensions of existence. His work is part of a quest to express emotions, dreams, and ideals, where art becomes a sensitive language to explore the relationship between humans and their environment.
The exhibition Écho : les murmures des arbres [Echo: the whispers of the trees] explores the vital connection between humans and trees — an essential element that is both nourishing and symbolic, as well as spiritual within the ecosystem. Here, the echo embodies the silent cry of the forest: a whisper that cannot be ignored, a fragile trace, and a reflection of human impact on nature. The exhibition questions our responsibility in the face of rapidly disappearing forests and envisions a possibility for reconciliation — a world to be re-enchanted, where nature regains its place as a living being in its own right.
The exhibition unfolds in three parts. The first evokes the imprint of absence — the disappearance of trees — through a triptych of ink drawings on Antemoro paper, a traditional handmade paper from southeastern Madagascar, created around the 15th century to record sacred texts and preserve knowledge. The second series gives voice to the echo, a cry of distress manifested in the striations of trees: these marks become reverberations of lives on the brink of extinction — voices, waves, cries, tears, and flowing blood. Finally, the third part of the exhibition opens onto hope: an installation that envisions a poetic projection of possible reforestation, a wish for rehabilitation born from an act of reconciliation between humans and nature, a gesture of care for the earth to see the trees rise again.