DC -- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Exhibit: Perspectives: Chiharu Shiota:
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- Description of Pictures: Perspectives: Chiharu Shiota
August 30, 2014 – June 7, 2015
Haunted by the traces that the human body leaves behind, the work amasses personal memories of lost individuals and past moments through an accumulation of discarded shoes and notes collected by the artist. Shiota studied at Kyoto Seike University (Japan), Canberra School of Art, and Universität der Künste in Berlin with Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn. Her work has been presented at the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, 2013), Birmingham Museum (Alabama, 2012), National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (2007), Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (2006), and MoMA PS1 (New York City, 2003), as well as the Biennials in Venice, Fukuoka, and Yokohama. Born in Osaka, Japan, Shiota currently lives and works in Berlin.
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Chiharu Shiota
"When someone disappears, we come to recognize their existence for the first time. Presence dwells within absence."
-- Chiharu Shiota
The body and its relationship to the physical world are fundamental concerns in the work of Chiharu Shiota. Often weaving mundane objects related to the body into large-scale installations. Shiota conveys a profound sensibility for the accumulation of memories -- and inescapable sense of loss -- that permeate daily life.
Frequently moving residences in Berlin during the late 1990s, Shiota began weaving yard around her belongings, and then turned to other people's objects. For Over the Continents, she collected hundreds of shoes from friends, strangers, and flea markets and, when possible, requested short notes from donors about the shoes' importance. Written in Japanese, the notes sometimes describe deceased loved ones or memories of cherished moments. By placing each shoe individually and pointed outward with its handwritten note. Shiota invites the viewer to reconsider this intimate, familiar, and yet often overlooked object.
As a mass of empty, well-worn shoes arranged in a radiating composition, Over the Continents resonates with both the absence of unknown bodies and the opportunity to image different lives. While the shoes vary in appearance and in the stories that they may conjure, all are tethered with bright red yard to a single point, alluding to the essential connection between human beings and the shared need for a point of origin.
Translations of a selection of the notes are available on the adjacent computer kiosk and online at asia.si.edu/shiota . Share stories and photos of your own shoes with hashtag #perspectives .
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