Roméo Mivekannin: Correspondances

Fondation H presents Correspondances, a solo exhibition by Roméo Mivekannin, on view from October 2, 2025, to March 21, 2026. The French-Beninese artist, invited to create an exhibition in dialogue with Malagasy history, territory, and culture, explores historical narratives, colonial representations, and spiritual transmissions within the local context. The exhibition will occupy Fondation H’s upper floor for five months, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The title Correspondances stands as a key interpretative lens for Roméo Mivekannin’s solo exhibition at Fondation H. For this project, the artist refers to colonial postcards—both intimate and ideological objects—which he critically reappropriates through textile painting. The term Correspondances also evokes echoes between different temporalities, narratives, and gestures of repair, extending to the geographic connections between France, Benin, and Madagascar—between colonial pasts and contemporary resistances, between erased figures and their reinsertion into an active memory. The exhibition thus becomes a site for dialogue between narratives, memories, and gestures of repair. Correspondances embodies a weaving of multiple voices/visions/hands: between archives and new creations, between continents and insularities, between artistic gestures and artisanal ones, between the absent and the living. For this exhibition, the artist presents two series of works. The first, Fahatsiarovana [Memorial], takes the form of a monumental 20-meter-long installation created in collaboration with Malagasy metalworkers. It depicts asen—portable Voodoo altars—in dialogue with Malagasy funeral relics and steles. The second textile serie consists of paintings on sewn sheets infused with an elixir of his own making, inspired by colonial postcards and embellished with embroidery by Malagasy craftswomen. All the works on view—presented here for the first time—were produced between the artist’s studio in Toulouse and Antananarivo, drawing on local artisanal expertise. fondation-h.com