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Here we are with issue 19 of Mozaïk, your digital cultural magazine from the Indian Ocean and beyond.

The entire editorial team invites you to explore some of the world’s most beautiful destinations and to discover their stories, cultures, and traditions.

Visual arts have this silent power to express the unspeakable and to connect continents without using words. For this new issue of Mozaïk, we invite you to embark on a pictorial journey rich in color.

From London to Istanbul, via Madagascar and Northern Italy, the artists featured in these pages question our relationship with reality, the sacred, nature, and intimacy.

Kasia Davies, born in Poland but based in London, paints inner worlds where shades turn into emotions. Cansu Rossi, a self-taught artist from Istanbul, moves us with the delicacy of her miniature still lifes. Cécile Chapuis gives voice to the wood of Malagasy canoes.

In photography, the sensitive eye of Spanish artist Elena Molina explores, captures, and reveals.

A highlight of this issue, “Africa Seen by the World”, a monumental exhibition at Chipek’s Bar in Saint-Leu, Réunion Island, showcases 300 works by 200 artists from 70 countries.

And because art is not confined to frames and formats, we gave the floor to artist iBEmaso Rabearison. Through music, cinema, and literature, his multifaceted perspective reminds us that every form of art is a dialogue.

This edition also pays tribute to the Vangovango, a traditional Malagasy silver jewel forged according to ancestral techniques.

This issue is also a nod to our chief editor, Na Hassi, whose talent is matched only by her generosity in sharing it. Let us also recall that she recently won the Vanilla Prize 2025 – Fiction Work for her novel Two Hearts in My Body, published by Project’îles Editions. This is just a glimpse of the themes you’ll discover throughout these pages. This issue is an invitation to see differently, to feel differently, to think differently.

So, enjoy the journey—and above all, happy reading.

- Joachin Michaël Rakotoarisoa