Mountains, Temples, Traces
TAL WALDMAN – Solo exhibition
Galerie Cécile Dufay
September 12–27, 2025
Opening reception: September 12, 6–9 p.m.
Address: Galerie Cécile Dufay, Village Suisse n°27,75015 Paris (opposite 6 avenue de Champaubert)Metro: La Motte-Picquet Grenelle (lines 6, 8, 10)
At the Cécile Dufay Gallery, Tal Waldman presents a work of sacred art. Contemporary and experimental, it is a quest for body and mind, a spiritual experience made visible through form. Her work explores breath and gestures as sources of creation. Each trace becomes a meditative act, an inner cartography of breath, revealing the memory of movement, migration, and ritual.
Two series are featured in this exhibition:
Traces (2024-5), created with ink and acrylic on paper in shades of red, embodies an exploration of breath as a tool for creation. Repeated gestures, inspired by inhalation and exhalation, form visual rhythms, like choreographic imprints. This process requires a conscious and embodied presence, where breath becomes a living weaving of rhythms. It evokes both the memory of migratory movements and echoes the gestures of textile work.
Mont Analogue, (2024-5) Inspired by René Daumal’s initiatory novel, develops a reflection on light, shadow, and the passage between the visible and the invisible. Through black and white drawings enhanced with gold leaf and shamanic sculptures made of woven paper, the artist plays with composition and projected shadows. These works form small temples, sacred spaces where the material and immaterial meet, embodying an inner search and the transformation of gesture into ritual.