Since the early 1990s, Liz Deschenes has investigated the material processes through which images are produced. Making use of photography’s most essentials elements, Deschenes deconstructs the viewer’s experience of light, reflection, surface, and depth. Bypassing the camera apparatus, Deschenes often creates photograms, images made using light-sensitive paper, to directly record a given light source. Shift/Rise #37 comes from a series of photograms that explore the perception of movement and position. The work’s title refers to “shift” and “rise,” terms that describe the horizontal and vertical camera movements used to control focus and perspective. In Deschenes’s image, these suggested camera movements extend to the viewer’s body, which is mirrored in the highly reflective black surface of the picture. Depending on the viewer’s position in front of the work, they appear or disappear in its surface, establishing a dialogue with the work and the space the viewer occupies. Always installed in a corner, Shift/Rise #37 assumes a sculptural quality, emphasizing its surrounding architecture in a way that recalls the phenomenological experiments of Minimalist artists.