30 November 1848. Seven months after slavery was abolished in Guadeloupe, Louisonne, Alexandre and their children stood before a registrar in the town of Lamentin in Guadeloupe and were given the name ‘Mobétie’. This administrative record, found by Magalie Mobetie three generations later, has become one of the guiding threads around which her family and her work now weave a link between past, present and future.

A multimedia artist combining visual arts, video, sound, 3D and immersive technologies, Magalie Mobetie is interested in what is left unsaid, unseen and the reasons for silence in families. Trained at Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts (2020-2022 - Tourcoing, France) and then resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2023-2024 - Maastricht, Netherlands), she has developed a transdisciplinary practice in which she assumes the role of ‘future ancestor’, transforming inherited legacies into conscious transmissions.

Since 2023, she has been teaching in the Digital Humanities Master’s programme at the Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France. Her approach is part of a critical and exploratory thinking about the diversion of digital tools and extended realities to think beyond entertainment.