Carte blanche to Chiharu Shiota - Exhibition catalogue
EK197926
€ 10
Written in French.
As for many artists, global confinement has been the occasion for Chiharu Shiota to reflect on domestic space and the family cocoon. Living Inside brings together for the first time a group of intimate and delicate works around the notion of "home" and the fragmentation of our daily realities.
Famous throughout the world for her spectacular installations of stretched wires, in 2020 the Japanese artist had to put her incessant wanderings on hold for the first time in almost fifteen years. Confined to Berlin, where she has lived for many years, this sudden halt revived many of the artist's own themes: immobility, silence, confinement, and the uncertainty of destiny.
Through these miniature, crystallized worlds, reassuring and disturbing, Chiharu Shiota invites us to look back at this last extraordinary year. As she explains, "We are connected, as we are all in the same situation. Everyone is sitting at home looking at their furniture and wondering about the outside world, which is, at this moment, reduced to a mere memory." In a bittersweet way, she examines the codes of a living space that is now drastically restricted but already filled, perhaps, by multiple possibilities to be invented.
Exhibition at the Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet from March 16th 2022 to June 6th 2022
Written in French.
48 pages / 15 illustrations
Rmn - Grand Palais with the Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet
