Chiharu Shiota: State of Being

25TH JUNE – 23RD JULY 2022
ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY

This intimate, and striking installation by Chiharu Shiota is a story that unfolds as one enters the qui­et space, surrounded by stillness. A floor-to-ceiling webs made of red knotted strings dangling, and intertwined, to create a massive three-dimensional web.

The back the space reveals intimate miniature worlds made of dense strings that connect and suspend canvas, paper, reclaimed love letters, diaries and photos picked by the artist at flea markets. Arranged as if falling, their com­po­si­tion in com­plex arrange­ments of thread sus­pends them in time. 

"I believe that we are all connected. Were you able to see the invisible, all human connection is one. Thread from each heart is expressed as words linking us. In the flea market I found old love letters and diaries and although I never met the writer, I felt connected," explains Shiota.

Chi­haru Shio­ta installation represents the infi­nite and invisible threads that unite and connects us. It is an embod­i­ment of the com­plex net­works that gov­ern both our exter­nal and inter­nal lives.