Magali, a Cult

Magali, a Cult 

Lady, Swallow, Sorceress: The Room, 2024 
Fabric, 3D Animation, projection, sound 
Looped audio and sound 
7' x 4'
Courtesy of the artist

Magali, a Cult is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. She brings an amalgamation of genres together in her sculpture, CGI artwork, music, and writing. The grounding force behind these multimedia installations is her storytelling, which becomes a siphon into new and familiar landscapes.

For her thesis project entitled Mother’s Salary, Salt is centered as a medium, exploring its ability to transform and permeate materials by pairing it with steel, terracotta, water, fabric, and glass. Salt is contradictory. Preserving, purifying, healing, abrasive, toxic, transformative, crystalline, powdery. She relates this to the Maternal Attachment, borne of intense love and pain. The first one we encounter, reminding us of the initial mother severance, as proven by the scar that resides at the center of all of our bodies (belly button). The umbilical cord becomes a disintegrated symbol of this first ripping apart, which is extrapolated to envision the Eternal Attachment to Mother Nature.

The cord is the highway to all sustenance. Must be preserved. Must remember.
Preserve.

We all need salt.