The existence of another self is first mentioned in 1730.  Since then this expression is used in the common language to appoint someone that we truly trust and that we charge to act for us. 

By adopting multiple personalities, artists are fabricating for us some alter ego. They become Shamans, priests, priestess, tarot and palm of the hand readers, they change their sexe, identity or ornament, redefine genders and take on another skin. 

In doing so, artists are trying to connect in different ways  to their inner self, to the other or to the planet. By releasing those culturally prefabricated identities, artists are questioning socials etiquettes 

Alter Ego highlights these multiple questions about the self, if they’re linked to the fragility of the natural order or la mise en jeu… 

Alter Ego reveals at the hotel Rivoli some productions about those alternative states of self between science, magic, nature and culture.