Shivay La Multiple grew up in Nouméa, in New Caledonia/Kanaky. They live and work between Paris, the digital sphere, and the rivers. In their practice, Shivay La Multiple teaches reason the language of dreams. Through multiple mediums, they create escape lines toward uncharted worlds—multiverses, pluriverses. Like a Möbius strip, their research flows from the global to the visceral, from macro to micro, from dream to reality, from physical to digital. They are inspired by the concept of the poetics of relation, while remaining influenced by the many places they have journeyed through.

Their research focuses on giving shape and volume to an initiatory tale that begins in the Maroni River, then drifts along the Congo River, plunges into the waters of the Senegal River and the Casamance, and is carried by the currents of the Nile. It then follows the flow of the Lobe River and the Douro River. Most recently, the tale continued in the confluence of the Amazon River and the Rio Negro. These many crossings that weave through space and time, dream and reality, the physical and the digital, all lead to a fruit of many forms: the calabash.