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.
Wendy's Subway Reading - La vie is like that
On Friday, January 24th at 7 PM I’ll be reading from La vie is like that at Wendy’s Subway. Hope to see you in Brooklyn!
Details here: https://www.wendyssubway.com/programs/events/la-vie-is-like-that
La vie is like that, on photo-eye's Favorite Books of 2024 list
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.
La vie is like that LensCulture Book Review
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
Press Print: Risograph Photobooks @ Penumbra Foundation, July 25 - November 1, 2024
Very excited to have La vie is like that included in the exhibition Press Print : Risograph Photobooks opening this week at Penumbra Foundation. If you’re in NY do stop by! The show runs through November 1st. More details at: https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/press-print
SF Art Book Fair July 18-21
This weekend in San Francisco I’ll have books at both Conveyor Editions and Seaton Street Press. If you’re in town swing by!
Volumes mini fair in Zurich - June 8th!
If you’re in Zurich early June come say hi at the one day Volumes mini fair! I’ll be tabling for Conveyor Editions with a handful of my own books (including copies of The Dry Garden) and next to Seaton Street Press who will have copies of La vie is like that!
June 8th, 12 - 8 on the Löwenbräu Rampe.
La vie is like that published by Seaton Street Press, NYABF launch
I am incredibly excited to announce the publication of La vie is like that with independent publisher Seaton Street Press. La vie is like that takes its inspiration from the philosophical thought experiment 'The Ship of Theseus,' which reflects on the concept of the persistence of identity - if every part of an object is replaced over time is it the same object? La vie … explores the connection between language and identity. The work, in text and risograph images, touches upon themes of change, immigration, connection, dementia, loss, speech, love, and humor. The book is structured as an alphabet primer (A is for Aphasia... E is for Emerson... U is for Umzug) that blends languages - reflecting my father's combinations of French, Creole, and English, as well as my own study of German. The book will be available for purchase at the Seaton Street Press table (C19) at this year’s NYABF (April 25-28). I will be signing copies Sunday April 28th from 2-4pm.
Artist Talk at CPW
On October 12th I had the immense pleasure to speak about work in progress alongside Lindsay Buchman from Seaton Street Press. The talk was filmed and archived over on CPW’s site.