Jessy Razafimandimby

Jessy Razafimandimby was born in Tananarive, Madagascar in 1995 (CH/MG), and currently resides and works in Geneva. In 2018, he received his Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the Geneva University of Art & Design (HEAD). His multidisciplinary production includes painting, drawing, installation, and performance, and draws upon references from pop culture, such as 1960s and 1970s French cinema, fashion, and vintage lifestyle magazines. Jessy's art features baroque imagery with organic forms and chimeric figures that produce both dystopian and utopian hallucinations.

Jessy's art explores the concept of "home" and is interested in interior design and ornamentation. His systematic study of decorative motifs has led to a critical discourse on the bourgeois, class-based system of taste and social conventions. He works at the intersection of painting and performance, where his body enacts movements inspired by his visual art, while his drawings and paintings trap and fix physical motion.

In his exhibition "Droit de Visite de Digestion" at Arsenic, Lausanne, Jessy referenced an article from "La Semaine de la Femme," a weekly magazine for women published in Lausanne until the 1960s. The exhibition featured a re-enactment of the formal visit to the host, which, according to custom, had to take place within eight days of the dinner invitation.