Four musicians, a single breath. The canvas organises space like a score: the instruments answer the inclinations of the bodies, and rhythm arises from repeated curves rather than depicted movement. El Madani draws here on the learned musical traditions of Morocco and the East, where the ensemble always takes precedence over individual virtuosity. Dense, golden light sculpts the fabrics and leaves the background in an architectural half-dark. The work is at once genre scene and collective portrait: an aural memory fixed in pigment.
