Through the World’s Eyes, to unveil one’s Identity

Through the World's Eyes, to unveil one's Identity

Artist Statement

Different style photographer, what I feel connects with what I have seen, what I have lived.... To live abroad, learning new languages, traditions, discovering other beliefs, religions, lifestyle....Witnessing other's life; Being a watcher, but also feeling.
From my personal experiences, I explore feelings and matters, existence basic issues : body, identity, human nature, time passing, death. I show what I see, or play with different process. My pictures are a blend of portrait, nude, documentary or landscape.
My projects are more and more brought to life through hand-made unique art books or different plastic art technique ; I upcycle, make, create, mixing matter to my visual work.

Bio

Magdéleine -JustMagd- is a french photographer, who choose to study photography in Montréal. She then decides to travel the world. She exhibits "Tokyo dans mon Keitai" in Tokyo in 2009 (under the patronage of the French Ambassy) and shows her photos during festivals and exhibitions (Chambre07, La Fontaine Obscure, Polaroid festival, etc...).

Books interest her more and more, she learns graphic design and lay out. She attendes workshops "Traveling Photos" with Jacques Sierpinski (2014),  "Family album" with Alain Laboile (2017), "Produce a photographic series" with Claudine Doury (2018), "Cyanotype" with Fabienne Forel (2018), "The photographic project" with Richard Petit (2019), "Browsing through and editing your photographs" with Nicolas Havette (2019) ), "Sculpture book" Musée de Mariemont (2019) and "Copte binding" with Marjon Mudde (2019).

Exhibitions

2023

Artist book Fair  “Sous Couverture” St Antonin Noble Val, France

Selected "Bleu comme le chat, l’oiseau et plus encore" The Blue Library, La Ricamarie, France
https://www.calameo.com/read/007309617460a3b897e24

Solo exhibition, "The Girl made of Light and Dust", Valdez Museum, US
https://www.valdezmuseum.org/events/magdeleine-ferru-art-exhibit/

Selected  “Hour Twelve” (collaboration with Marjon Mudde, poem by Myrtle Marie Marmaduke), “PhotoBookWorks 2023”, Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA
https://abecedariangallery.com/store/product-category/exhibits/photobookworks-2023/

Selected “Walk to the River” Accordion book, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
https://kalbookarts.org/events/2023illustratedaccordion1/

Selected “Vie-à-Vie” (texts by Caroline Henry), CNFAP exhibition “Forest”, Paris, France
http://preprod.cnfap-artsplastiques.org/actualites/expositions/

Selected “Contact Sensible” Artist book in honor of Pierre Reverdy, Narbonne, France
https://mediatheques.legrandnarbonne.com/concours-livres-dartistes-pierre-reverdy.aspx

2022
Selected, "Pukmina Passeuse d'Âmes, diptyque" Art Biennial, Anchorage Museum, USA
https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/exhibits/alaska-biennial-2022/

Selected “Evanescence”, Biennale artist book fair, Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Québec
livresdartistesauportage.com

Selected, photo festival Le Havre, "Bia _Quand la neige est cache misère", Espace Claude Monet, St Adresse
http://areyou-experiencing.fr/magdeleine-ferru/

Selected, 2 artist books : "Passage" & "Vie~à~Vie" Délires De Livres" Gallery Écu de France, Viroflay
http://am-arts.odavia.com/pro_page.asp?page=12273&sm=18330&lg=

2021
Selected, Métiers d'Art et Création, "Forêt : La re[N]essencec!", Gallery La Passerelle, La Gacilly
https://lapasserelle-lagacilly.com/2021/10/13/exposition-foret-la-renessence/

Polaroid Festival 2018, Group exhibition "Wall Of Fame", Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France
http://polaroidfestival.com/artistes-2016

2017
Group exhibition, People & Winter, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
http://www.blankwallgallery.com/exhibitions-people-winter-2017/#jp-carousel-6223
http://www.blankwallgallery.com/exhibitions-people-winter-2017/#jp-carousel-6224

Group exhibition, Travel, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
http://www.blankwallgallery.com/exhibitions-travel-2017/#jp-carousel-5707

Group exhibition, my books "Kennecott" and "Rest In Pieces", festival "La photo se Livre",
Galerie Fontaine Obscure Aix-en-Provence, France

Group exhibition, 3rd International Arvest Expo, Yerevan, Armenia
http://arvestexpo.wixsite.com/home/artists

Group exhibition, Moments of Color, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens - Greece
http://www.blankwallgallery.com/exhibitions-moments-color/
http://www.blankwallgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Magdeleine-Ferru-France.jpg

Group exhibition, my book "Kennecott" photo show RDVI, Strasbourg, france
http://www.rdvi.fr/les-selectionnes-2017.html

Publications

2022
"Cyanotype Appropriations contemporaines" Editions Artfolage
https://www.artfolage.net/souscription

2021
Contributing artist, Artist book "Méandres", The Hand Magazine
https://www.thehandmagazine.space/issue-33-purchase-and-artists-links

Contributing artist, 1 photo, The Hand Magazine
https://www.thehandmagazine.space/issue-32-purchase-and-artists-links/

2019
Catalogue Polaroid Festival 2019, Wall of Fame (Barcelone, Espagne)

2018
Catalogue Polaroid Festival 2018, Wall of Fame (Paris, France)

One photo chosen on the open call #metoo, published on a poster in the magazine Nº4 of FemmesPHOTOgraphes.

Veggie Color (1 & 2) in the 12by12 Member’s book (Responses to monthly photo challenges set b y twelve renowned photographers)

2017
Exhibition catalogue, People & Winter, Blank Wall Gallery (Athens - Greece).

Exhibition catalogue, Travel, Blank Wall Gallery (Athens - Greece).

Exhibition catalogue, Moments of Color, Blank Wall Gallery (Athens - Greece).

Exhibition catalogue, for the book "Iniside Kennecott", Rendez-Vous Image (Strasbourg).

2013
Le Petit Journal, La Dépêche du midi, section "Sports 82", photo of A.Daillières, bronze medal, World Veteran Championship of Judo, Abu Dhabi.

2012
Contributor photographer "10 Magazine" & "Chip’s Maps", Seoul, South Korea.

2011
Diez Minutos, section "Estos dias se habla de…" for the Ibiza IFF (International Film Festival).

What I have lived built who I am;

What I have experienced

makes my inner feelings.

It is all Linked.