Malala Andrialavidrazana

Malala Andrialavidrazana (born 1971) is an artist and photographer from Madagascar, who lives in Paris.

Andrialavidrazana moved to Paris in the early 1980s, and graduated from École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette in 1996.

[3] Some ten-year later, she began a career as an artist by extending her graduate investigation of Madagascan burial architecture to cities throughout the Global South, including Auckland, Buenos Aires, Guangzhou, and Santiago.

Her resulting d’Outre-Monde series, reflecting on funereal traditions and urban architecture, and showing "funerary customs at the boundaries of nature and culture," was awarded the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2004.

[4] Andrialavidrazana's show at the Caroline Smulders gallery in 2019 featured digitally collaged and over-painted works that take maps and bank notes as a starting point to revisit the visual heritage of the colonial period.