Rijasolo . Mahaleo . Rina Ralay Ranaivo . Harivola Rakotondrasoa .

Mendrika Ratsima . Christiane Ramanantsoa . Gilbert Rakoto . Bolo .

Mahefa Reboza . Bryan Rajesy . Tsiriniaina Irimboangy . Soratra

Gad Bensalem . Andrianina Rajoelisoa, aka Joely . Dah'mama . To

Ranaivoharijao for Tolona . Raymond Rajaonarivelo . Tsiory

Razafinorovelo . Elie Ramanankavana . Bodo . Elie Rajaonarison

Philibert Tsiranana . Richard Ratsimandrava . Admiral Didier

Ratsiraka . Professor Albert Zafy . Marc Ravalomanana . Hery

Rajaonarimampianina . Andry Rajoelina . Michaël Randrianirina .

Joël Andrianomearisoa . Hasnaine Yavarhoussen . Anja Rama . Liva

Randrianarivony . Sambatra Andriamanana . Tsiky Razakarivony .

Haja Salomé Rakotoarimanana . Christel Marline.Fulbay . Fabrice

Raheriniaina . Karim Rakotobe . Mickaël Rabearison . Edmondine

Razafimalala . Rolland Rahalison

FEO

Isa

Feo iray

Feo roa

Two

Feo telo

One and two

Efatra … folo … arivo … tapitrisa

This is my voice, with our voices, with us.

FEO

Our third season at Hakanto Contemporary.

A new editorial weaving the present

of Madagascar

with

its political upheavals,

its civic uncertainties,

its fractures, our fractures

its patriotic hesitations

its popular surges.

its doubts, our doubts

its demonstrations, our demonstrations

its cries, our cries

its hopes, our hopes

its clumsiness, our clumsiness

its beliefs, our beliefs

its loves, our loves

its histories, our histories

its regrets, our regrets

its disappointments, our disappointments

its despair, our despair.

Its poisons, our poisons

its antidotes — the antidotes

its utopias, and above all its arts. Our arts.

FEO is a project carried by the entire Hakanto Contemporary team,

in close complicity with Malagasy artists and citizens.

A new chapter composed of works, statements, performances,

words, voices, commitments and actions to take the pulse of our time.

An observation of contemporary Madagascar in all its forms - patriotic, poetic, political, geographical, historical, civic, and above all, artistic.

FEO

Ny Omaly, ny Anio

Ary ny Ampitso ?

Sopatra ve ny anio sa hery vao ?

While awaiting decline or victory,

While awaiting defeat or consecration

Let us bring all voices into the light

Let us bring all forces.

Grievances

Songs

Desires

All lives

All dreams

Nightmares

Howls

Ambitions

Hearts

Hopes

Certainties

And yes — all forces

Feo. Feo? Feo

Neither cry nor accusation

Neither manifesto nor denunciation,

FEO

is first and foremost a carte blanche given to artists.

The near-historical paintings of Mendrika Ratsima sway to the vivid sounds of Bolo…

Christiane Ramanantsoa, woman of the stage, extends her social analysis through a renewed reading of Gilbert Rakoto’s heritage painting.

Harivola Rakotondrasoa dances upon the words and scars of Rina Ralay Ranaivo.

Rafahafahana of Mahaleo cuts and carves into the words of architect Mahefa Reboza.

Tsiriniaina Irimboangy misuses flowers, turning them into weapons of war.

Ödy Ôdy — we strike with Gad Bensalem and the rhythms of Saka dit The King.

Joely lays poetry down in an elegant gesture, carried by a melancholy so deeply rooted here.

Dah’mama continues to search for the keys to all vanished hopes.

With the click of an image, Rijasolo captures a fragile instant — and we stumble.

Raymond Rajaonarivelo restores the artist to the centre of conversation.

Elie Rajaonarison cries out the death of our art — the art we deserve.

Bodo mourns…

And Elie Ramanakavana, through his calligraphy, delivers the final voice — fatal.

Around these forms rise the figures of the country’s political history.

Around these narratives and artistic claims also stand active members of civil society. Voices, ireo feo-antsika.

And at the edges of these stories, the entire Hakanto Contemporary team asserts its own utterances, questioning the State as it stands today.

A field of play where stories, claims, narratives, gestures — and above all, hopes — will be danced and written.

Voices at the crossroads of current affairs, forms and memory.

In Malagasy, FEO means both the voice, voices, and sometimes echo.

It is through dialogue that this project finds its resonance — a constellation of singular and plural voices, old and new, disenchanted or utopian,

responding to one another, intersecting,

clashing, still searching.

A sensitive chronicle of Madagascar,

where its fractures and its voices are revealed,

sometimes with hope, sometimes without.

FEO

FEO

FEO

Our voices. Your voices. Us - and above all, us.

Joël Andrianomearisoa

January 2026