As a preview of the reopening of all of its galleries in June 2025, the Grand Palais is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the poetic and sensitive work of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. On view from December 11, 2024 to March 19, 2025.
Born in Osaka, Japan in 1972, Chiharu Shiota lives and works in Berlin. It combines performances, body Art and installations in a process that places the body at its center. Chiharu Shiota has been exhibited around the world, notably at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003), at K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (2014), at the Smithsonian, Washington DC (2014). In 2015, Chiharu Shiota represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. In 2018, she exhibited at the Museum of Kyoto.
Since the mid-90s, the artist has produced installations of intertwined wool threads, creating spectacular graphic networks, through which the visitor must find their way and their place. These gigantic canvases very often envelop everyday objects (chairs, beds, pianos, clothes, etc.) and invite you on a majestic dreamlike journey. If the art of entanglement has made his reputation, the artist's practice also extends to sculpture, photography, video and drawing, of which the exhibition will present a body of work. His protean creations explore the notions of temporality, movement, memory and dreams, which require both the mental and bodily involvement of the viewer.
Uncertain Journey2016/2021, Shiota Chiharu : The Soul TremblesTaiwan, 2021 / Photo Guan-Ming Lin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2023 © Adagp, Paris, 2024
The exhibition co-organized with the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, is the largest exhibition ever dedicated to the artist, which spans more than 20 years of his career. The first major monographic exhibition organized in a museum in France and Europe, it will offer the public an immersive experience through several monumental installations spread over more than 1,200 square meters.
Having experienced first-hand, and on multiple occasions, the vulnerability of the life he has been granted, Shiota hopes that this exposure can 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 Shiota's career , which spans more than twenty years.
Exhibition curator: Mami Kataoka, Directrice, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
[Source : communiqué de presse]
Partner event of Club Artistik Rezo
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