Magali
Lambert

Magali Lambert

biography

French artist born in 1982, Magali Lambert lives and works mainly in Paris.

Magali Lambert develops her photographic work from the scenography of remains and relics, in an attempt to retain what tends to disappear.

She collects and ritualizes collections of abandoned materials that she saves from the dumpster or from oblivion. These rituals consist of telescopes, images and words.

Michel Poivert, in the preface he signs to his book “Histoires Naturelles”, speaks of his work in these terms: “Like the figure of the Baudelairean ragpicker poet, Magali Lambert gleaned the debris of our civilization.

She unearths objects, vestiges and skeletons, marries them into a marvelous body, photographs them as at the wedding and then pins this image in a box, of those that are made for butterflies or remarkable insects. ”

Magali Lambert graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2006. Appointed resident member of the Casa de Velasquez, Academy of France in Madrid, for the year 2012-2013, she regularly presents her work throughout the world, notably in Lianzhou (China), New-York, Madrid, Paris, Arles, Marseille, Porto, Brussels.

Series

Tainted Sky, 2020

Serie | The year 2020 was heavily marked by the appearance of the Covid 19.

At home, 2020

Serie | All of my work is focused on things that are a priori uninteresting, ignored or forgotten. Found objects have an important place in it. The ones I picked up on the street, or in a garbage can. Other people’s ones.

Disappeared birds, 2017

Serie | The Museum of the Château de Dourdan gave me an assignment to interpret and highlight their collections: the ones exhibited in the rooms of the museum, and the ones of naturalized birds hidden for years in the reserves.

Tu es une Merveille (collections espagnole, belge et française), 2015

Serie | Inspired by the Wonders of the Cabinets of Curiosities - precious objects born from the mixture of natural and artificial elements, presented since the end of the Renaissance in Europe

The one that tells the shadow, 2015

Serie | During the year 2014-2015, I stayed many times in the Center of France. I followed hunters and farmers.

Portraits #1, 2014

Serie | I did portraits of the 11 object-animals. After the print of the portrait on glossy photographic paper, I have etched other hybrid forms on the dried emulsion.

Massacres, 2014

Serie | When I sunk into the hollow of trees, I came face-to-face with a deer and a stag that didn’t run away. We stayed together for couples of hours.

Tainted Sky, 2020

Serie | The year 2020 was heavily marked by the appearance of the Covid 19.

At home, 2020

Serie | All of my work is focused on things that are a priori uninteresting, ignored or forgotten. Found objects have an important place in it. The ones I picked up on the street, or in a garbage can. Other people’s ones.

Disappeared birds, 2017

Serie | The Museum of the Château de Dourdan gave me an assignment to interpret and highlight their collections: the ones exhibited in the rooms of the museum, and the ones of naturalized birds hidden for years in the reserves.

Tu es une Merveille (collections espagnole, belge et française), 2015

Serie | Inspired by the Wonders of the Cabinets of Curiosities - precious objects born from the mixture of natural and artificial elements, presented since the end of the Renaissance in Europe

The one that tells the shadow, 2015

Serie | During the year 2014-2015, I stayed many times in the Center of France. I followed hunters and farmers.

Portraits #1, 2014

Serie | I did portraits of the 11 object-animals. After the print of the portrait on glossy photographic paper, I have etched other hybrid forms on the dried emulsion.

Massacres, 2014

Serie | When I sunk into the hollow of trees, I came face-to-face with a deer and a stag that didn’t run away. We stayed together for couples of hours.

Tainted Sky, 2020

Serie | The year 2020 was heavily marked by the appearance of the Covid 19.

At home, 2020

Serie | All of my work is focused on things that are a priori uninteresting, ignored or forgotten. Found objects have an important place in it. The ones I picked up on the street, or in a garbage can. Other people’s ones.

Disappeared birds, 2017

Serie | The Museum of the Château de Dourdan gave me an assignment to interpret and highlight their collections: the ones exhibited in the rooms of the museum, and the ones of naturalized birds hidden for years in the reserves.

Tu es une Merveille (collections espagnole, belge et française), 2015

Serie | Inspired by the Wonders of the Cabinets of Curiosities - precious objects born from the mixture of natural and artificial elements, presented since the end of the Renaissance in Europe

The one that tells the shadow, 2015

Serie | During the year 2014-2015, I stayed many times in the Center of France. I followed hunters and farmers.

Portraits #1, 2014

Serie | I did portraits of the 11 object-animals. After the print of the portrait on glossy photographic paper, I have etched other hybrid forms on the dried emulsion.

Massacres, 2014

Serie | When I sunk into the hollow of trees, I came face-to-face with a deer and a stag that didn’t run away. We stayed together for couples of hours.

Interviews

Question d’images n°7 – Magali Lambert / Brigitte Patient
Villa Pérochon
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2023

Journalist Brigitte Patient receives photographer Magali Lambert on the occasion of her exhibition The Secret Lives of the Ordinary at Villa Pérochon from June 23 to October 21, 2023.

Music: “Wildlife” et ‘The heist” – Audiohub
Production / Editing / Sound mixing: David Nani et Nicolas Riffaud
Executive producer: Patrick Delat, Villa Pérochon

64′ Info – Art
TV5 Monde
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2018

About the exhibition « Venus du jamais mort » at the Galerie VU’, Paris and the publishing of the book Venus du jamais mort – h’artpon Editions

Magali Lambert – “Venus du jamais mort”
Galerie VU’
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2018

Interview about the exhibition “Venus du jamais mort” (September 14th to October 27th, 2018).

Atelier Magali Lambert & Exposition “Les Oiseaux Disparus”
Musée du Château de Durdan
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Interview by Alexandre Guilmain, 2017

Interview conducted by Marine Mercier, Manager of the cultural Laboratory of Dourdan, at the occasion of the exhibition “Les Oiseaux Disparus” at the Museum of the Dourdan Castle.

exhibitions

Les vies secrètes de l’ordinaire
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Villa Pérochon – Niort
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From June 23 to Octobre 21, 2023

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Regards croisés sur la nature
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Château de Saumur, Saumur (FRANCE)
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From June 12 to December 12, 2021

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Venus du jamais mort
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Galerie VU’, Paris (FRANCE)
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From September 14 to October 27, 2018

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books

Venus du jamais mort

h’artpon - 2018

Histoires naturelles, la meute orange

Livre d’artiste - 2016

Histoires Naturelles, Tâches de rouge et de vert

Livre d’artiste - 2014

Venus du jamais mort

h’artpon - 2018

Histoires naturelles, la meute orange

Livre d’artiste - 2016

Histoires Naturelles, Tâches de rouge et de vert

Livre d’artiste - 2014

Venus du jamais mort

h’artpon - 2018

Histoires naturelles, la meute orange

Livre d’artiste - 2016

Histoires Naturelles, Tâches de rouge et de vert

Livre d’artiste - 2014