Portrait Library Research
Malala Andrialavidrazana and Délio Jasse; A comparison.
Based in Paris, Malala Andrialavidrazana's work revolves around the exploration of culture and nature. Her work comprises of vast collections of art from various cultures and destinations Andrialavidrazana has been to. There is also an undeniable influence of cartography in her work, which relates to her background in architecture shown through her work as it has a structural nature to it. In addition, Andrialavidrazana explains architecture as the construction of new ideas (Libsekal and Recasens, 2018) which I believe is her explaining subtly how repressing culture prevents beneficial change and improvement to humanity. I also easily saw that her choice of colours were very earthy/natural, but still vivid, demonstrating the vibrancy in the African and Asian cultures she explores.
Blend between western and southern worlds by showing a clear conflict between colour, pattern, subject. This is shown by the aesthetic of the imagery she uses as they have the appearance of printed western stamps and money, but the subject is of other cultures and again her colour palette. The subjects weren't specific to her but general commonalties between the cultures she explores. Very simple, she wants to give countries the opportunities to express themselves, as they weren't able to when under the control of western empires who decreased their platform for expression.
Jesse's work is also very photographic and print centred, whilst also exploring colonialism by the west. His work came from documents he found, belonging to a Portuguese family in Mozambique, which showed vast amounts of culture and identity in Africa.
He gives clues in his work of the lifestyles of his subjects - even if he doesn't know them. The photos show the lavish lives that western settlers had in Mozambique and showing the marginalisation that black people had to suffer as despite being photos taken in Africa, there were very few black people. He wanted to show the deletion of black people when Europeans moved in.
The colours of his work are largely monochromatic with little presence of colour, clearly showing a depressing time for African culture under western influence. Shows how the past is fragmented and how memory doesn't have to be linear through archive. By putting a fragmented collection of memories together, he paints a picture of life that is not a memory or reality, through how he edits his found imagery by deconstructing and reconstructing the image again to add new meaning.
His work differs by showing life as it is rather than the carefully organised and abstract work by Andrialavidrazana, with raw and real snapshots that aren't nearly as much. Putting it simply, Jasse has raw footage with little process and Andrialavidrazana showing how western culture has processed eastern/southern culture.
Based in Paris, Malala Andrialavidrazana's work revolves around the exploration of culture and nature. Her work comprises of vast collections of art from various cultures and destinations Andrialavidrazana has been to. There is also an undeniable influence of cartography in her work, which relates to her background in architecture shown through her work as it has a structural nature to it. In addition, Andrialavidrazana explains architecture as the construction of new ideas (Libsekal and Recasens, 2018) which I believe is her explaining subtly how repressing culture prevents beneficial change and improvement to humanity. I also easily saw that her choice of colours were very earthy/natural, but still vivid, demonstrating the vibrancy in the African and Asian cultures she explores.
Blend between western and southern worlds by showing a clear conflict between colour, pattern, subject. This is shown by the aesthetic of the imagery she uses as they have the appearance of printed western stamps and money, but the subject is of other cultures and again her colour palette. The subjects weren't specific to her but general commonalties between the cultures she explores. Very simple, she wants to give countries the opportunities to express themselves, as they weren't able to when under the control of western empires who decreased their platform for expression.
Jesse's work is also very photographic and print centred, whilst also exploring colonialism by the west. His work came from documents he found, belonging to a Portuguese family in Mozambique, which showed vast amounts of culture and identity in Africa.
He gives clues in his work of the lifestyles of his subjects - even if he doesn't know them. The photos show the lavish lives that western settlers had in Mozambique and showing the marginalisation that black people had to suffer as despite being photos taken in Africa, there were very few black people. He wanted to show the deletion of black people when Europeans moved in.The colours of his work are largely monochromatic with little presence of colour, clearly showing a depressing time for African culture under western influence. Shows how the past is fragmented and how memory doesn't have to be linear through archive. By putting a fragmented collection of memories together, he paints a picture of life that is not a memory or reality, through how he edits his found imagery by deconstructing and reconstructing the image again to add new meaning.
His work differs by showing life as it is rather than the carefully organised and abstract work by Andrialavidrazana, with raw and real snapshots that aren't nearly as much. Putting it simply, Jasse has raw footage with little process and Andrialavidrazana showing how western culture has processed eastern/southern culture.
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