Before seriality
The twenty artists/designers/craftsmen of Shift Craft use ancient and obsolete techniques, rediscover the unpredictability of manual work, materials, cooking and assembly processes with a mind scientific.
They experiment with workmanship, innovate it, desecrate it, without forgetting the cultural (and spiritual) roots of making crafts in an oriental country. Sometimes they are disarmingly simple objects, which however hide a technical expertise made up of trials and patience.
They demonstrate mastery, a knowledge rooted in years of learning and practicing an art. Many of the artifacts would be beautiful industrial design objects, with the risk of losing the human behind the object once again along the way.
But this is also good news for those who are intolerant of confusion of genres and definitions: manual work, at least in this case, precedes serialization and perhaps gives it a democratic and collective raison d'etre.
