Magaly Cantú

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Current Exhibition:

April 13 - May 18, 2024.

There’s no telling time

Jackie Castillo, Shabez Jamal, Sarah Plummer, Xiao He, Cesar Herrejon, Magaly Cantú.

Group Exhibition.

Release:

+ File; Curate LA; Artillery.

Press:

+ Feature (LA Art Party: April 13, 2024).

+ This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: April 11-17, 2024).

+ LA Art Openings & Spotlight (ArtRabbit: April 10, 2024).

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Bio

Magaly Cantú is an interdisciplinary artist based in Denton, Texas. She works between a traditional printmaking, drawing and expanded ceramic practices. Through the translation of familial relationships, personal memories, photographs and daydreams. Magaly dissects experiences of girlhood as a Latina an the impacts of navigating in-between tradition and modernization. Magaly has shown work at Arts Fort Worth, 500X Gallery, the University of West Virginia, and the K Space Contemporary. Her work has also been added to multiple collections such as Marais Press print collection at The Hilliard Art Museum and Incisori Contemporanei, Villa Benzi Zecchini, in Caerano di San Marco, Italy. She is currently an M.F. A candidate specializing in printmaking, at the University of North Texas.

{Biographical text courtesy of the artist.}

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Looking along an impossible gaze pressed between a body and the broken bed that gathers against its gravity, the two ceramic-framed prints editioned under the name Mi Camita Quebrada arrive at the navel of a dream—at a seductive seam eclipsed by sleep… by a body falling into fabric. The windowed view cut-out of the supple ceramic frame remembers the obvious voyeurism of looking into someone else’s bed(room) and catching a glimpse of the flesh intimated only to the privacy of their prone position. (Somehow I’m allowed to see between the sheets.) —But then the whimsical marks—the butterflies and little milagros adorning the ceramic surfaces—remind me that this intimacy is only offered between the body and the mattress, between the (self-)image and the vessel that breaks beneath (or above) its weight. The intimacy of somewhere a body can be without being seen, a nightly return to the lack of the gaze(…still looking nonetheless). (Time to close the window… Cierra la ventana).

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Exhibitions with the Gallery: