Echo's chameleon, a hybrid being despite being 'exotic'. (Photo credit: La Teinturerie – Artists' Association) The tension of the 'modern' world is captured in this painting of a chameleon in a jacket, a creature turned hybrid, holding a house in one hand, which almost condenses the question 'F'iray sa kina?'. An exhibition by Echo, a graffiti artist experimenting with mixed media, is on display at Teinturerie Ampasanimalo from September 3 to October 6. An alienation, when mimicry is pushed to its limit, which he has inscribed in a painting where he demonstrates his eternal attachment to graffiti. Mimicry: the chameleon is a tourist attraction, designed to draw Westerners and their backpacks. Here, it becomes the overstated hybrid being of globalizing capitalism. A symbol too of dispossession, that of the 'citizen of the world', without actual spatial belonging. The organizers explain. 'F'iray sa kina?', a fundamental questioning, 'recounts Malagasy mental and spiritual behaviors in the face of political-social influences, illustrated in paintings. Representations of psychological struggles, truths and quests for truth, as well as political or non-political visions, for citizen survival'. Artist Echo has been in graffiti for over fifteen years. He brings together three worlds: 'the raw codes of graffiti, the sacred geometry of mandalas and a rich symbolic iconography'. More than a dozen works: the journey is rather temporal, with a well-distilled dosage of politics. Reason enough to congratulate him, if only for the gesture. Artistic courage.