Viviane Rakotoarivony

Viviane RAKOTOARIVONY is a Malagasy photographer, born and living in the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo. She was a painting artist before becoming a photographer. She exhibited her photos for the first time at the Isar't gallery in Antananarivo in 2011 with "Tano-ora" (hold the time), an exhibition on youth and the body, in duo with a Malagasy photographer. Thereafter, she held her first solo exhibition entitled "Abattoir" in 2011 at the gallery No Comment, on zebus in the slaughterhouses of Antananarivo.
In 2013, she exhibited her vision of Madagascar with 5 other photographers in "Regards Pluriel" in 2013 - French Institute of Madagascar. The same year, her work on contemporary dance, "Nude" was exhibited in Kenya Nairobi in a private gallery. Viviane has been collaborating with Malagasy contemporary dancers since 2011 and will exhibit on dance in March 2019 at the Is'art Galerie. Then, in early 2021, she entered a 3-month residency at the French Institute of Madagascar on the same theme.
Her love of humanity also drives her to take portraits of the individuals who were most affected by the lockdown in 2020. This photographic project was selected by the HY endowment fund in late 2020 and has been exhibited from October 2021 for a period of 6 months. Viviane has also been selected by VII Academy, along with nine other African photographers to attend an online training course during June and July 2022. Lately, she had an exhibition about photography and dance and time which took place in October 2023 at Fondation H Madagascar.