These images emerged on paper through a delicate balance between control and chance. They are the result of moments of complete openness to what unfolds, as ink leaves no room for distraction.
[…] My days in the studio are thus shaped by the need to align my breathing with my gestures and to remain attentive to the rhythm imposed by water. This discipline requires finding a certain slowness within urgency.
- Magali Cazo
"For Les veilleuses, I present a selection of landscapes and figures, mostly recent, each bearing witness, in its own way, to a light in the darkness.These images emerged on paper through a delicate balance between control and chance. They are the result of moments of complete openness to what unfolds, as ink leaves no room for distraction. The demands of this medium, which I have been exploring for over ten years, have taught me far more than technique alone. They compel me to be fully present. My days in the studio are thus shaped by the need to align my breathing with my gestures and to remain attentive to the rhythm imposed by water. This discipline requires finding a certain slowness within urgency. The work then becomes a wandering through landscapes, traversed or imagined, in which contemplation finds its way into the process.
Although observation plays an important role in my practice, it no longer coincides with the time of painting. Through looking, I take in places and colour atmospheres, only to forget them. I trust what remains to resurface in a simplified form, stripped of all that is superfluous. There is a sense of care in my relationship with contemplation; in this respect, it resembles a form of vigil.I feel a certain responsibility, faced with the fleeting beauty of natural phenomena, to be there to witness them and preserve something of them.
The figures embody this posture. They simply remain present, doing nothing other than keeping watch. They give a face to the tenderness of the world, allowing us to see it. For while they believe they are taking care of the world, they forget that it is, in fact, the world that holds them in its arms. The bodies dissolve into the landscape, and the landscape reflects them."
- Magali Cazo, 08/10/2026, Paris
