Culture
Exhibition: Veloma Lava - A Long Farewell in Paint
The artist behind this exhibition will surely touch visitors deeply. Artist Miarina currently presents Veloma Lava, an exhibition that opens as a meditation on memory and the fragility of moments at La Teinturerie – Tiers Lieu Mahatazana. Until September 11, 2026, this series of canvases invites visitors to immerse themselves in the memory of "last times": those ordinary moments that time transforms into bittersweet memories. Far from a discourse on loss, the exhibition offers a refuge where nostalgia becomes a breath, a space to regard one's memories with tenderness before departing lighter. Each canvas unfolds in fluid continuity, like a narrative deployed in four movements. The Dive opens the experience with a soothing immersion in greens and water lilies, awakening the sensation of "I remember." The Apocalypse marks the shift toward the end of a season, a world slowly fading. The Rituals freeze human presence in gestures of separation, like a necessary distance to mark farewell. Finally, the Nocturne envelops the visitor in the blue of night, where nostalgia becomes a lullaby for returning memories. Originally from Tana, Miarina paints the paradoxes of existence through color, shadow, and gesture. Her style, which she defines as "intimate narrative figurative," oscillates between introspection and collective manifesto. Each canvas becomes a space of tension where the intimate meets the social, where simplicity takes on depth and lucidity. The choice of title, Veloma Lava, reflects the spirit of this approach. It evokes the farewell that stretches, the breath that connects past to present, the awareness that many "last times" come unannounced. The exhibition invites remembrance, feeling, allowing oneself to be traversed by nostalgia, not to be confined by it but to better continue: an experience to live, because Veloma Lava is not an exhibition about loss, but about continuity. Furthermore, a conference on the carpe diem issue will be organized as part of this exhibition on August 29, as well as painting workshops with the artist in September.
Source: Midi Madagasikara