Shifting Worlds

Three artists with varied and mixed cultural backgrounds, Teresa Chen (Chinese-American), Zineb Sedira (French and Algerian) and Janaina Tschape (Brazilian and German) offer us their contrasting and discerning personal experiences. Their work lifts the veil on terms such as multiculturalism, globalization or internationalism. Combining the infinite wealth of hybrid cultures, their stories spin yarns that pass easily from identity and difference, absence to presence, femininity to masculinity, past to future, knowledge to ignorance. Multiplying perspectives as in a kaleidoscope, Shifting Worlds highlights the work of three artists who transfer their viewpoint to that of others, transforming it and metamorphosing our vision of the world. One by one, they redesign political or geographic landscapes with a degree of tenderness and intimacy that is nothing if not universal. At the borderline between cultures and identities, Shifting Worlds reproduces the tradition of transmission. The “speculum” – the mirror – of the other brings us to decipher a social state in a personal manner, opening new perspectives on relationships. These stories, both personal and universal, intensify meetings and cultural exchange. They also give meaning to the interface between experiences of oneself and of others, and initiate us to the infinity of otherness.