Magali Duzant is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in NY and Zürich. Her work combines the poetics of perception alongside in-depth research practices to examine the subjectivity of seeing, intimacy, light, and the roles of technology and translation as mediators of lived experience.
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
La vie is like that received a lovely, thoughtful review by Daniella Sanader in the February issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Link here to read: https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/art_books/magali-duzant-la-vie-is-like-that/
Honored to have La vie is like that included on photo-eye’s Favorite Books of 2024 list. Many thanks to Mary Virginia Swanson for choosing the book and her lovely write up.
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/
Happy to share that The Moon & Stars Can Be Yours was recently named an Editors’ Pick by Art Asia Pacific during BOOKED, the sixth edition of the Hong Kong Art Book Fair held earlier in the month.