Magalie Mobetie
Mourning Cloud / Will we all end up in the cloud(s) ? - Installation - 2022
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 24
In countries where discussion of anything related to death is extremely awkward, what is the future of physical and digital funerary practices?
The act of listening to a voicemail, looking at photograph and instant messages again and again to is now part of our grieving for a loved one. Services and other spontaneous behaviours have emerged, from personalised VR experience of a farewell to the possibility of attending a funeral via your smartphone.
Mourning Cloud proposes a space where "digital afterlife services" intersect with questions about the ownership of personal data. It allows the visitor to prepare the appearance of his or her own person, using a single piece of data. Freeing himself from his image, processed by a deepfake algorithm disconnected from feelings, his double will remain as long as the Mourning Cloud exists. This encounter between oneself and one's ghost could be a first step towards managing our digital heritage and its attempts to make us immortal.
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.
