Liz Sales wrote a wonderful review of La vie is like that for the photography website LensCulture.
Link to her deeply considered review here: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/magali-duzant-la-vie-is-like-that
Lenscratch Review of The Moon And Stars Can Be Yours
Lisa McCarty wrote a review of The Moon And Stars Can Be Yours for Lenscratch, I love the way that she closed, “In her pursuit of psychic services Duzant, or the narrator, is also searching for her voice as an artist, for self-possession, for future certainty….By the end of The Moon and Stars Can be Yours Duzant has extended this tradition, not by providing direct advice but by disclosing her own path toward living the questions perpetually, toward every day becoming.”
http://lenscratch.com/2020/06/magali-duzant-the-moon-and-the-stars-can-be-yours/
Dorothea Lange : Words And Pictures review
I had the immense pleasure to write about MoMA’s Dorothea Lange retrospective, Words & Pictures. I began writing about the show during NYC’s lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic ripping through the city. The piece was published as protests and marches blossomed across the country. I thought I knew Dorothea Lange’s work but this exhibition during this time in history underlined just how impactful her work and her photographic ideology were and still are.
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/dorothea-lange-words-and-pictures
TSA PDF : Zone V curated by Yael Eban
Tiger Strikes Asteroid’s initiative of exhibitions under the title TSA : PDF was a critics pick in the New York Times. Zone V, curated by Yael Eban includes work by Roni Aviv, Magali Duzant, Jiwoong Jang, Rehan Miskci, Adam Liam Rose, Cory Emma Siegler, Rachel Stern, and Gabriela Vainsencher. Zone V refers to the photographic middle gray, perceptually halfway between white and black. Morally ambiguous and neutral, gray is the color of complexity, filling the space between absolutes. Reduction of color evokes notions of necessity, distilling an image to its abstracted core. Triple-clicking on the home button of an iPhone turns bright colors to grayscale—a hack to combat phone addiction, altering our relationship to the screen in an instant. What are the possibilities and boundaries of the monochromatic? At what point does a color image hold so little color that it reads as gray? The monochrome and color works in this show prove that limits and restraints can yield artwork that is at once intellectually rigorous and expressive.
TSA_PDF is a series of printable exhibitions curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid. People are invited to download and print these works on their home printers and share their “install shots,” which are shared on social media and TSA’s website.
