Joël Andrianomearisoa’s Sentimental Garden plays on the fragility and lightness of life, the tangible and the intangible, the eternal and the ephemeral.

Huge piece of black fabric, exposed to the weather, the Sentimental Garden is to the test of passions like love is subjected to the drama of existence. Admittedly architect, it is not the rational character of the artist who takes over in the creation of the work but the emotion that defines the work. It is the artist’s secret garden labyrinth that invites the visitor to enter, while pushing back as the wind swells the cloth. Game of impossible love, the visitor must penetrate burglary to find himself invaded both emotionally and spatially. Phenomenon particularly disturbing as the visitor cannot really define this work. Is it a tapestry, facade, architecture, border? No matter, because the work is not meant to be locked in the shackles of determination or rational interpretation. Only silence and delicate caress of the work, driven by the wind is enough to make sense.

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