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#Chiharu Shiota
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All photographs by Charles Roussel, courtesy of Galerie Templon, shared with permission
In Indicators of Life, a dense set up of knotted and wound string fills a lot of Galerie Templon’s New York house. The work of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (beforehand), the solo present transforms the gallery right into a monochromatic labyrinth of intricate mesh that ascends from flooring to ceiling. Shiota considers the multivalent which means of the online, from the construction of neural networks inside the human mind to the digital realm at present’s world depends on.
One of many works options bulging cylinders and dangling threads in pink, whereas one other white construction traps quite a few e-book pages inside its midst. Created throughout a two-week interval, Shiota envisions the set up as connecting private reminiscence and the gathering of information. “I at all times thought that if demise took my physique, I wouldn’t exist anymore,” she says. “I’m now satisfied that my spirit will live on as a result of there may be extra to me than a physique. My consciousness is linked to the whole lot round me, and my artwork unfolds by means of individuals’s reminiscence.” The present additionally consists of beforehand unseen drawings and sculptures, a lot of which include quotidian objects that immediate questions on how gadgets change into significant, sentimental, and treasured with use.
Indicators of Life is on view by means of March 9. You’ll find extra from Shiota on her web site and Instagram.
#Chiharu Shiota
#set up
#reminiscence
#site-specific
#string
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