LAUREATE 2026
RESEARCH RESIDENCY
5 OCT - 26 DEC
PARIS
Miangaly Elia Andriantsoa questions the way urban structures reflect living conditions and cultural identities. Through dioramas, she turns social observations and historical narratives into visual artworks, creating a link between reality and her own sensibility. Her series link collective concerns to a more personal form of expression.
Lalantsara, the project that won her the Prix Paritana (2026), begins with a quotation by Jules Renard, found in an architecture book in Antananarivo: “If one built the house of happiness, the largest room would be the waiting room.” In the Malagasy capital, this space of waiting often takes the form of the corridor, lalantsara, a word combining lalana, the path, and tsara, the good. The project reverses her usual process: she dismantles her dioramas to isolate their fragments — walls, joinery, furniture — which stop motion brings back to life, and moves away from miniatures towards radically larger formats. The installation takes the form of a fragmented corridor in which visitors wander among architectural elements that are scattered, suspended, placed or projected.
In 2026, for the Prix Paritana: 10 Years of Contemporary Malagasy Creation exhibition, two dioramas are presented: Tsena [Market] and Untitled, continuing her research into urban structures.
Artist's biography
Miangaly Elia Andriantsoa was born in 2002 in Antananarivo, Madagascar. She lives and works in Antananarivo. She obtained a higher technician’s diploma in architecture from Institut supérieur de technologie d’Antananarivo (2020–2023). She took part in several modules of Ainga, an artistic professional development programme run by Fondation H, covering art history, artistic practice and cultural event production (2024 2025). She was Laureate of the Prix Paritana (2026) and won the Trophée Jeune Cobaty, awarded by Cobaty Iarivo (2025).
Her work has been shown in the group exhibitions Dendrophile, presented as part of Antson’ny tontolo miaina at Zone Zital, Antananarivo (2026); The Cartography of Dreams II at the National Arts Festival, Makhanda (South Africa, 2025); The Cartography of Dreams at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Johannesburg (South Africa, 2025); and Maison des vivants at the Musée de la Photographie de Madagascar, Antananarivo (2024).