Magalie Mobetie
November 30, 1848. Slavery in Guadeloupe has been abolished for only seven months when Louisonne, Alexandre, and their children are called before the mayor and the civil registrar of Lamentin and assigned the surname “Mobétie.” This small, administrative imprint, recovered by Magalie Mobetie three generations later, has become the filament around which her family now forges a link to its past. Through 3D installations, augmented reality and virtual reality tools, Mobetie finds ways to embody and give voice to otherwise unuttered family histories and shattered historical archives. She uses digital tools to transform the stories inherited into legacies from the perspective of a "future ancestor."
Anba tè, adan kò
Forgetting and silence seem to have put off a confrontation with certain ghosts of the past in two families from the Caribbean culture. What happens to things left unsaid? How do we free ourselves from them? Using an augmented reality application, visitors meet the bodies of the members of two families around a tree, scanned in 3D, all connected and yet so distant from each other, pale copies of these living beings. What lies beneath these skins? Under their names? Accompanied by the person who is the link between all these people, visitors can listen to their exchanges, to help them find their own ghosts.
Produced by Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains.
