Chiharu shiota exhibition 2025
I did not read all the text of this comprehensive volume with essays by a variety of critics and art historians The text that meant the most to me was Chiharu Shiota s own words in correspondance with Toshikatsu Omori Her personality and life come through enlivening and informing her art The plates in the book are copious and beautifully done I will return to this book again and again Chiharu Shiota The Hand Lines
Shiota s installations produce their own spaces where hundreds of invisible threads that bond us to things can be seen In these domestic scenarios she proposes threads become bridges between a bride s dress and the absent subject a piano suitcases and a mirror In her work these threads are veins with tears fear for abyss life and death threads that are plots of particular and universal stories interweaving like the inverted roots of a tree just like a rhizome through multiple branches that hold up the relationship between she and the world The threads that transport the information and are essential in all the communication but at the same time make up networks or wire fences that hold up the way to strangers in kinds of spaces where everyday life is in conflict with desired production Chiharu Shiota The Hand Lines
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