Magalie Mobetie
Anba tè, adan kò - Installation - 2021
présentée dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 23
Installation
“I was looking for souls that we had lost. I was rummaging in my body for replicas of a gene provoking taciturn generations. I was frightened by my verbal outpouring, frightened of the burdens I’d bring down. But your earth, Papa Jean, is a land of love and your children have always celebrated it.” Going out to see her family in Guadeloupe, Magalie tries to shatter the culture of silence. The history of slavery and its trade has not been passed on. It is not a subject of conversation. What happens with this accumulation of things unspoken? The voices and ghostly doubles of nine parents are placed under a tree, a clear reference to the family tree, but not only that, for there is also a Tree of Forgetting. Evoking the idea of a trauma that must be repressed, echoing research in epigenetics and psychogenealogy, Magalie wants to go in the other direction around the tree and invites spectators to do the same, not in order to forget, but to know and to share.
Magalie Mobetie
Born in Mulhouse in 1996. Lives and works in Roubaix. Graduated in 2019 with an MFA in Digital Arts, Stages and Images. During her first year at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains she created the installation 0,005m³ d'identités (2019) and Anba tè, adan kò (2021). Both deal with the themes of identity and heritage.
