Chiharu Shiota, currently settled in Berlin, studied Fine Arts at Kyoto University and then in Germany. 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 I 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.
- The exhibition, which occupies all floors of Palau Baró de Quadras, has four facilities and six drawings created for the occasion.
- The exhibition includes two video projects explaining recurring themes Shiota's work as the origin and birth.
Venue.- Casa Asia Headquarters. Av. Diagonal, 373. Barcelona. Spain
Dates.- On now through to March 30th, 2013.
