SHIFT (an artistic duo founded by A. Devaux/ 1996 and PC. Malet/1996) uses installation to build bridges between different worlds in the same space. Within the spaces imagined by the duo, plural realities confront each other, narrating fictions from multiple points of view.
These points of view are those of fictional characters imagined by the duo, but also the presence of other artists invited to collaborate. Imaginations are interrupted, interfered with and blended, creating tree-like paths that visitors are free to follow. SHIFT’s narratives are based on the study of a number of counter intuitive phenomena, such as Fata Morgana and pyrophytic plants, and sculptural installations are built around these subjects. The duo take their name from Shifting Reality, a self-meditation practice aimed at changing reality by writing highly detailed scenarios. It is also used for one of its meanings ; shift as a slide, like the alteration of reality through fiction and the interferences that can be created through narrative.
Through their installations, the SHIFT duo hope to give substance to these shifts by constructing sculptures that interweave two environments in the creative field: the contemporary art installation and scenography (in the theatre and cinema), which involves staging an image and taking account of the potential reversals and off-screen elements that make it up.