Rolling Figures 2.0. 2022
From ‘Figures’, 2015–ongoing
UltraChrome pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
152 x 876 cm

Malala Andrialavidrazana works across disciplines to examine communication, dialogue and difference within cross-cultural contexts. Drawing upon a diverse web of sources within her own archival research and photography, her visual compositions allow for alternative forms of history-making.
Her collage ‘Figures’ (2015–ongoing) recontextualises symbols of nineteenth-century conquests and exploratory campaigns. Experimenting with the imperialist authority of engraved images on bank notes and world atlases, Andrialavidrazana invents her own visual language by subverting these inherited signifiers of economic domination. She thus challenges, uproots and reshapes notions and icons of territory.
(Text at the exhibition. © Sharjah Art Foundation)