2020
Metal Frame, Red Thread, Hydrostone and Dress
35 x 35 x 70 cm
Signed C-S in English
Estimate TWD 1,600,000-2,200,000
USD 57,100-78,600
HKD 0-0
Hammer Price TWD 6,000,000
USD 215,983
HKD 1,714,286
With a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
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I want to understand my soul and where it belongs – Chiharu Shiota
Born in Osaka in 1972, Chiharu Shiota has been based in Berlin for the last twenty years. She studied under renowned performance and body artist Marina Abramovic in Germany. Shiota is also considered a multidisciplinary artist, her works include installation, performance art, digital art, dance, musicals and other cross-disciplinary partnerships. Her works can be found in art museums, galleries and art fair around the world. In 2015, she represented Japan at the 56th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition. In 2019, She was invited by Mori Art Museum in Tokyo to host her largest-ever solo exhibition, it is the most comprehensive survey of Shiota’s oeuvre curated by Mami Kataoka and titled “The Soul Trembles” the exhibition will tour to Taiwan’s Taipei Fine Arts Museum this year from May to August!
A couple of years ago, Shiota was diagnosed with cancer. This challenging time gave her a strong feeling of uncertainty, anxiety of not knowing the future that is often reflected in her work. This motif of threads came to life and changed her artistic approach, in her own words “A thread to me is an analogy for feelings or human relationships. When using it, I do not know how to lie. I can create unlimited space that seem to me to gradually expand into a universe. When I can no longer trace a yarn installation or art object with my eyes, it begins to feel complete.” The artist gives material form to the intangible realm of memories, anxiety, dreams and silence. Shiota is prolific in her desire to continue creating works questioning human existence, consciousness, relationships and purpose of life. Shiota often says that threads are like human relations, they cannot be cut, intertwined and tangled. These vessels interconnect people. They represented an inherited DNA that we all possess connecting us to our homeland and to others. In State of Being (Red Dress) is a powerful example of Shiota’s working and conceptual process, the artist tangled a child’s dress inside a box with red threads. The dominating red of the treads and the purity of the white dress creating a spectacular visual contrast, while articulating sentiments of nostalgia towards familiar objects. The artist’s poetic journey explores the secret tie between our inner emotions and tangible objects, and seeks to deconstruct our conception of physical existence. Shitota explained the final work in her exhibition “The Soul Trembles,” as “I, myself, have tried to live,” because she was so close to death, her work is even closer to “life.”
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