Maëlle Cornut (*1986) is a visual artist and art researcher. She was born and near by the Rhône, where two distinct sections of the river coexist side by side: one in which the water meanders almost unchanged, evoking the past, and another in which its course has been strictly straightened.
Ma¨L graduated from HEAD Geneva (BA–MA) and is currently pursuing a PhD at ZHdK and the KunstUni Linz as part of a practice-based PhD project entitled ‘Air Being(s)’, which explores air, its power and the question of how to form kinship with it (Donna J. Haraway). Ma¨L currently teaches a seminar at EDHEA that interweaves gender, queer and ecological theories, and has taken part in ‘Passage’, an exhibition organised by the Swiss Alpine Club, as well as in ‘Regarder le glacier s’en aller’, a national exhibition project on the disappearance of glaciers. Ma¨L, together with Dr Losapio, received a PolARTS grant from the Swiss Polar Institute and Pro Helvetia for the art-science project ‘Intertwined Destinies’.