The GrandPalaisRmn presents the exhibition Chiharu Shiota, The Soul Trembles (Les Tremblements de l’Âme) in collaboration with the Mori Art Museum de Tokyo. This museum created this retrospective in 2019, which showcased 20 years of the Japanese artist’s career.
World renowned for its monumental installations, Chiharu Shiota born in Osaka in 1972 combines performances and installations in a process where the body occupies a central place.
Since the mid-1990s, Chiharu Shiota produces installations of intertwined woolen threads, creating spectacular graphic networks through which everyone is invited to find their own path and place.
Inspired by personal experiences which she broadens to universal concerns, Chiharu Shiota often wraps everyday objects in his paintings, symbolizing the links between the intimate and the universal.
After being presented around the world (Tokyo, Australia), this project is adapted to Grand Palace. This is the first monograph devoted in France to this contemporary artist.
Deployed over more than 1,200 square meters within the just restored galleries of the Grand Palacethe exhibition offers a real dive into the dreamlike and sensitive universe of Chiharu Shiota.
If the art of entanglement has made the artist famous, this exhibition reveals other facets of his artistic practice. Engaging both the body and the mind, his protean creations explore notions of temporality, movement, memory and dreams.
Having directly experienced, and on multiple occasions, the vulnerability of the life he has been granted, Shiota hopes that this exhibition will be able to transmit to others, with his whole body, the tremors of his own soul.
Featuring seven large-scale installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, performance videos and archival materials related to his directing project, the exhibition represents an opportunity to become familiar with the career of Shiota.
Mami Kataokadirector, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and curator of the exhibition explains:
“The exhibition combines several installations, showing an evolution over the years, so that the essence of the expression of Chiharu Shiota is transmitted to the public through the diversity of his work over a long period. »
Chiharu Shiota looks back on his very particular universe:
“When I was studying painting, I felt stuck. I felt like everything I created had already been done. There was no emotion, it was just color on a canvas. When I was studying in Germany, I yearned to have my own space. I had moved nine times in the space of three years and sometimes I no longer knew where I was when I woke up in the morning. I took some yarn I had in my room and started weaving a web around my body and my bed. I felt like I was drawing in my room. I create a three-dimensional painting and, at the same time, it is a mirror of my feelings. With the thread, I finally found my material. »
She expresses it thus:
“All my work is about connection and emotion. »
Commissariat : Mami Kataoka, director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Scenography: Atelier Jodar
This exhibition is co-organized by the GrandPalaisRmn, Paris and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
