Beatriz Galiano: Drawn to Blue
“That particular truth doesn’t make me feel vulnerable; it makes me authentic.”
Text: VIONNE Magazine | Model: Beatriz Galiano | Photographer: Liam M.
Beatriz Galiano doesn’t answer the question “What do you do?” with a list of titles — though she certainly could. Painter, sculptor, designer, writer, model. But instead, she offers a deeper truth: “I dedicate myself to feeling.”
In her latest photo series Drawn to Blue, that emotional honesty takes visual form. Inspired by the New Year’s performance of The Blue Danube — the Spanish artist channels memory, sensuality, and presence into a poetic reflection of self. The result is an editorial that feels like a waltz between color, body, and soul — intimate, intuitive, and full of quiet power.
VIONNE: There’s a bold sensuality in your work that feels very honest. Do you ever feel vulnerable sharing that side of yourself — or is it a kind of strength?
Beatriz: I can tell from the question that my intention and attitude are being very accurately perceived — because it is honesty, and therefore it is truth. That particular truth doesn’t make me feel vulnerable; it makes me authentic. That’s who I am: a woman who allows her sensuality to express itself freely. I cannot and should not repress it, because it is natural. It exists beyond any kind of premeditation; it’s not crafted or calculated — it flows without tricks and lacks any form of artifice.
VIONNE: What inspired the concept and mood behind the photo shoot? How did you prepare for it creatively?
Beatriz: Very often, the creative takes magical and surprising paths, like when a novelist ends up taking their plot somewhere they never planned. It’s the case of painting, where it feels as if the artwork itself takes your hand — even the brush — to develop in an astonishing way, far from the initial plan. Nudity is always a difficult challenge, moving between very subtle dividing lines, within which one must know how to distinguish the ordinary or vulgar from the extraordinary. The display of the body must be approached in pursuit of a visual impact where desire and beauty are perfectly interwoven. And I suppose — because that is the most mysterious part — that the spirit prepared for a destiny like Vienna wrapped me in a kind of beautiful blue coincidence, evocative of one of the most universal waltzes, perhaps the most universal.
VIONNE: You’ve described yourself as someone who “dedicates herself to feeling.” How does that emotional approach shape the way you move in front of a camera?
Beatriz: Perhaps my greatest psychic resource is simply not thinking that I am in front of the camera, but rather before the future eyes of kindred souls invited into my intimacy. From that fixed idea — which never leaves me throughout the entire session — a very direct and private connection gradually forms between my excitement and their fantasies. All of this unfolds without fear of sex as a taboo, and with no shame in offering my sincerity, because in the end, it’s a matter of sincerity in a woman like me.
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