Malala Andrialavidrazana: Figures

Malala Andrialavidrazana’s Figures are akin to geographical maps, on which representations drawn from stamps, banknotes, prints, advertisements and other iconographic sources selected by the artist are superimposed. If collage is an art of conflict, in which multiple contradictory realities are brought together with one another, the map is a product of mechanisms of knowledge and power situated in history as much as in geography. “Who is speaking?” and “Where are they speaking from?” are the questions that inevitably arise when we contemplate these tools.