The Yavarhoussen Fund accompanied the monumental installation in the Zeitz MOCAA atrium with a special commission to Madagascan artist Joël Andrianomearisoa. 

"The five continents of all our desires" celebrate relationships and connections. Constructed from Andrianomearisoa's signature material, black tissue paper, six large-scale sculptures form a suspended archipelago in poetic reference to land masses and the geographies of the imagination. For Andrianomearisoa, the work evokes both migration and language, as well as the ongoing search for zones of engagement and desire. He constructs a vision of the world that is fragile, ambiguous and open, offering new possibilities for human contact.

The work is conceived in dialogue with the museum's concrete interior and what remains of the building's original silos; it is both at play with and in visual tension with its surroundings. While appearing as large black masses, the work's fine, soft materiality allows subtle atmospheric responses to become visible - such as the rustling of paper due to air flows caused by human movement.

This was the first time a Madagascan artist had been invited to occupy the vast space of this important museum.