Ambi’s Two Passions

La Marseillaise, Tuesday, 10 July 2007, by C.C.

In its 10 July 2007 edition, La Marseillaise profiled Ambi (Ambinintsoa Andriankajarivelo), whom it described as “ambivalent”: a pétanque player, a recently qualified referee, an art history student, and a painter. Having arrived in France seven years earlier to study visual arts, she discovered her love of pétanque there, going on to pass the referee’s exam in October 2006. The article also mentions her master’s degree in visual arts, earned with honours. It notes her recent exhibitions in Aix and Marseille, and her t-shirt brand “Tatabwood,” inspired by Madagascar.

Ambi shares her hope of one day returning to Madagascar to open a school of visual arts for children there.

“I can’t live without art, and I can’t live without pétanque.”

Summary and quotation from the original article “Les deux passions d’Ambi,” published in La Marseillaise on 10 July 2007.