CHIHARU SHIOTA

The exhibition Echoes Between invites audiences on an immersive journey into the universe of Chiharu Shiota. The Japanese artist unfolds her renowned web-like installations, reinventing thread as a poetic and universal medium.

After studying painting in Kyoto, Chiharu Shiota turned away from the medium to explore performance art. Her search for new forms of expression brought her to Germany, where she eventually began using the materials and techniques that would express her artistic voice the best. Thereby, turning to installations, creating vast, ephemeral environments. Through a subtle weaving of knotted threads, she constructs striking scenographies that integrate objects imbued with memory: window frames, discarded musical instruments, suitcases, keys, books, and second-hand garments. Her monumental installations -now emblematic of her practice - have been exhibited in museums worldwide, forming a singular body of work that explores notions of existence, memory, and transcendence.

With Echoes Between, Chiharu Shiota delves into the realm of death, a liminal space where consciousness drifts and transforms. Around two chairs, thousands of luminous threads form a radiant cloud, like a shower of living particles, evoking a continuous dialogue between the real and the imaginary.

In The Soul’s Journey, Shiota saturates the space with red threads, creating an organic, hypnotic immersion into the depths of consciousness, an infinite skein where memories and emotions intertwine. Remaining faithful to her formal investigations, she also presents thread-filled boxes, delicate reliquaries of memory, alongside her Infinite Lines - canvas works that transform the web into a sensitive surface, as if it were skin itself.

Echos Between runs concurrently with Shiota’s acclaimed exhibtion Two Home Countries at the Japan Society, New York.