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Special Edition
La vie is like that
by Magali Duzant
La vie is like that, an artist book by Magali Duzant, explores memory and forgetting, language acquisition and loss, migration, love, grief, family, and identity. The impetus for the work began as Duzant was learning a language whilst her father, recently diagnosed with dementia, began forgetting his own. Structured as an alphabet learning book (A is for…), also known as a primer, La vie is like that is composed of short passages of writing formed from a non-chronological narrative that embodies a circular sense of time. Duzant’s writing style embraces a conversational tone, with humorous asides combined with the artist’s personal archives, including observational imagery informed by movement, touch, light, and shadow translated through Risography. The book balances text and images, breaking and pausing between each chapter and unfolding and overlapping temporalities across various topics spanning Greek myth, Japanese temple architecture, CAPTCHAs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Russian and Turkish Baths on East 10th Street, the letter Y in romance languages, linguistic false friends, and dream interpretation.
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Special Edition:
Includes a set of 3 limited-edition Risograph prints, an envelope with a didactic, and a copy of the publication La vie is like that. Prints signed verso by the artist.
Dimensions: 12 in. x 9 in. prints (3)
Edition size: 30
Year: 2025
Book details:
Size: 8.5 x 6.5 in.
Page Count: 180
Format: Hardcover (Clothbound)
Binding: Smyth Sewn
Printing: Risograph (Yellow, Scarlet, Blue, Metallic Gold, Black & Violet)
Paper Stock: 80 lb. Accent Opaque Natural
Cover Material: Verona Bookcloth
Cover Details: Foil stamp with inset image (4-color digital offset)
Endpapers: Risograph (Violet) on 65 lb. French Pop-Tone Grapesicle
Typeface: Cultura
Published & Printed by Seaton Street Press
Text & Photographs: Magali Duzant
Editor: Sacha Vega
Cover & Binding: Conveyor Studio
2024
First Edition: 300
ISBN: 979-8-9903703-0-2
© MAGALI DUZANT
