PARIS
23 JUNE – 18 JULY
For her installation Graines d'Outres-Terres, Joey Aresoa imagines a repertoire of more than 200 ceramic seeds with names as singular as they are evocative: les perceptives, les lunantes, les mutuals, les xeros, les taiza, les transportives. Each name summons a language that is both scientific and poetic, which the artist refers to as “matières souches”: forms capable of containing, transmitting, or bringing forth imaginaries, memories, and sensitive states, while carrying within them a promise of germination.
Shaped in clay and then patinated to evoke the matte appearance of aluminium, these seeds are arranged on old printer’s drawers. Sound fragments integrated into the installation guide visitors through the different groups of the repertoire and create an experience that is both intimate and immersive.
Fiction runs throughout Joey Aresoa’s practice as a method: a way of approaching intercultural relations, particularly between Paris and Antananarivo, as well as history, myths, and storytelling. In this spirit, she builds, poem after poem, an imaginary taxonomy of the living world. Graines d'Outres-Terres extends a reflection begun in Antsangano (in the collective exhibition Memoria: accounts of another History, Fondation H, Antananarivo, 2023), where the artist presented a library of aluminium eggs that, through virtual reality, gave rise to fictional books, tales, and poems.
Graines d'Outres-Terres is presented at Fondation H’s Paris space from 17 June to 18 July.
Biography of Joey Aresoa
Born in 1986, Joey Aresoa lives and works in Antananarivo, Madagascar. A multidisciplinary artist, poet and visual artist, Aresoa explores notions of memory, archives and the transmission of narratives through a practice combining writing and installation. Following a research residency at the G.A.S. Foundation (Lagos), supported by Fondation H as part of the Re:assemblages symposium dedicated to African art libraries and archives, Joey Aresoa will continue her research at the Cité internationale des arts from April to June 2026.