ICP Photobook Fest, Oct 2-5

This past weekend, two images from La vie is like that were on view in the museum’s Project Space. Seaton Street Press presented a selection of its projects examining the intersections of site, language, and memory, reflecting on familial and constructed archives, migration stories, and geographies. From Justin Hui's Searching for Poon, reconstructing his grandmother's memory and journey from mainland China to Hong Kong, Diana Guerra's Fleeting Under Light, on border crossings and new understandings of family and homelands in Latiné communities, and my book, La vie is like that, exploring language acquisition, migration, love, grief, family, identity, and aphasia, to Tyler Rico's Convergence and Excavation, disparate moments and timelines embedded in places and objects, Matt Neff's Sometimes, on vernacular photography and time as a feeling, and Lindsay Buchman's Stratagems (an overture), reflecting on transracial adoption and how place shapes who we become.

Making A Start, out now from Scarlet Tiger Press

Scarlet Tiger Press, a small press publisher based out of Devon, just released, Making a Start: 17 Artists & Makers on Creative Beginnings in the Age of Environmental Uncertainty. I contributed a pair of images from my studio and wrote a text on starting new projects. The book asks: how do you begin new creative work in the age of climate crisis? What is the value of making by hand, when the future feels uncertain?

Contributors: Kittie Jones, Ella Bua-In, Peter Lanyon, Rosanna Morris, Molly Lemon, Chisara Vidale, Helen Rollinson, Graham Black, Anita Reynolds, Maxine Foster, Theo Crutchley-Mack, Sophie Coe, Oscar Dalby, Melanie Davies, Emma Hogbin, Lee Nutland, Magali Duzant.

Many thanks to Amber Rollinson!

Roots of Cool at Descanso Gardens and The Nature of Cities

I wrote a piece on trees and shade to accompany the exhibition Roots of Cool at LA’s Descanso Gardens. Many thanks to David Maddox from The Nature of Cities for the invitation. The piece, alongside a slew of interesting responses from around the world, can be read or listened to at The Nature of Cities or in person at Descanso Gardens.

Mercuria V.1 Ch.4: Faulty Stars is out!

A few years ago I had the pleasure of writing a short essay about Mercury Retrograde for Conveyor Edition’s experimental publication, Mercuria. The essay is out now, titled Faulty Stars, and features the artwork of Hazel Eckert, Amy Friend, Brett Henrikson, Daniel Hojnacki, Lisa Kereszi, Marta Lee, Marissa Long, and E.C. Musgrave alongside a selection of images I made from the Accidents folder at the NYPL Picture Collection. This is the fourth chapter of Mercuria which will wrap up with a final chapter from Christina Labey. More info available here: https://www.conveyor.studio/shop/p/mercuria-v1-ch4

A Tree Grows in Queens on Book Bliss

A lovely review of A Tree Grows in Queens is included in Contemporary Lynx’s Book Bliss column. Many thanks to Karolina Slup for her sensitive, insightful response to the book!

Read Book Bliss : What The Land Carries here: https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/book-bliss-what-the-land-carries

La vie is like that up on Good

Happy to have an interview about my book, La vie is like that, published on Good.is

I spoke with Elyssa Goodman about thinking and writing about dementia. Many thanks to Elyssa for her insightful, compassionate questions about the project.

You can read the piece here: https://www.good.is/how-artist-magali-duzant-developed-an-art-book-to-think-about-dementia-and-honor-her-fathers-life

This Old Tree - Tree Story Shorts IV

Very excited to share that an excerpt from A Tree Grows in Queens is included in the latest episode, Tree Story Shorts Vol IV of the great podcast This Old Tree. I read from the chapter on The Queens Giant, an old growth tulip tree. Many thanks to Doug Still for including me in the episode! You can listen to it here:

https://www.thisoldtree.show/episode-details/tree-story-shorts-iv#/

I highly recommend listening to all the other episodes. There are great stories about Bartram’s Franklin Tree, a tree that owns itself, the Emancipation Oak, the Harlem Tree of Hope, and many many more!

Support Systems at Longwood Art Gallery

January 22nd is the opening of Support Systems, a group exhibition curated by Christina Freeman at Longwood Art Gallery in the Bronx. I’m excited to have an installation of The Dry Garden included. The exhibit runs through February 25th. More info at the following link: https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/connector/longwood-art-project/longwood-art-gallery

Election Uncertainty and an image from The Moon & Stars on NY Times Opinion

I was hoping to post this yesterday but here we are and this feels even more timely and depressingly helpful. An image from The Moon & Stars Can Be Yours was used for Dr. Gary Greenberg’s essay for the NY Times Opinion section. Many thanks to Jessie Wender at the New York Times.

Link here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/opinion/uncertainty.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Take care during this difficult week and beyond.

The Nature of Cities feature, excerpt from A Tree Grows in Queens

An excerpt from A Tree Grows in Queens was published this week on the website The Nature of Cities. The excerpt pulls from two chapters, Pink Dogwood and American Elm, and includes an introduction to the origins of the project. The piece can be read at the following link: https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2024/10/30/a-tree-grows-in-queens/