Bio

Magali Desbazeille discovered pencils and paintbrushes in 1974, when she was 3 years old; when she was 7, she hesitated between becoming a drawing teacher or a pastry chef; when she was 8, she won her first drawing contest and received her award at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris from Bernadette Chirac; she studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, at Hunter College in New York, at the Fresnoy in Tourcoing, but not in Berlin; she met the composer Siegfried Canto in 1999, through Internet, on the Ircam forum, and froze the system with an attached document that was too big (bigger than 62k); she meets the ingenior Sebastien Courvoisier in 2001, in a huge castel in the Est of France and the dramaturg, Julie Valero, in 2010 in a cloister in the South ; she works with them regularly; works with the choreographer Meg Stuart, but not with Paul Bocuse; her installations, performances, shows have been seen in France, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, Canada…; at Halle 14 in Leipzig, at the art center Motorenhalle in Dresden at Tiergarten Kunstverein in berlin, Fondation Ricard in Paris, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Maison Populaire of Montreuil, the Terrasse of Nanterres, at Saatchi Gallery / Wanderland exhibition by Hermès, at the art center Motorenhalle in Dresden, at the Ferme du Buisson, at the Mons CECN, at the Centre Georges-Pompidou, at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, at Z33, at the Schirman & de Beaucé Gallery, at the Uqam Gallery… almost never in the South but recently, at the art center “La Panacée” in Montpellier; should read Les Mots et les Choses by Foucault (it’s on the list); she lives and works in Montreuil, next to Paris; combines documentary and fiction, fine arts and performing arts, new technologies and tinkering; would like to know what people are really looking for; wondered for a long time what new technologies would do to language; she questioned herself about how our major institutions quantify the unquantifiable…and is now interested into the massive phenomenon : why everything is being evaluated, all the time by everybody !