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Magali Dougoud

Magali Dougoud is a Swiss artist whose practice focuses on dismantling dominant historical and scientific narratives in order to bring forth other possible subjectivities. Through her films, sound works, performances, and installations, she develops an emancipatory feminist imaginary shaped by notions such as liquidity, violence, and plural and interspecies intelligence. Inspired by hydrofeminism and the idea that we are all “bodies of water,” her research proposes a liquid embodiment form, in which alterity becomes a space for emancipation, transformation, and multiplication. Rooted in situated practices, her work engages specific social and ecological contexts through research and local collaborations. She develops interspecies perspectives that decenter human experience and foreground entangled forms of knowledge, care, and coexistence. Her latest solo exhibition at the Musée d’art du Valais in Sion (2026) explores connections between two distinct contexts—Kinshasa and Valais—through water as a common resource and the role of women in its care. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Switzerland and abroad, and has been in residencies in Berlin, Paris, Kinshasa, and Buenos Aires. In 2026, she undertook a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
Other texts by Magali Dougoud for DIAPHANES
  • aesthetics of film
  • media studies
  • cultural history
  • literary studies
  • sound
  • film experience
  • music
  • life sciences
  • cultural studies
  • art history