CATALOGUE & EXHIBITION DESIGN

Chiharu Shiota – Rain of Memories

Chiharu Shiota – Emlékeső

at Szentendre Gallery, Szentendre, Hungary | 2016
Curator: Gábor Gulyás

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Chiharu Shiota, the Japanese artist who has lived in Berlin for twenty years, has earned international renown with exciting installations and performances. The Key in the Hand, the project she presented at the 2015 Venice Biennale, was named best exhibition of the year by several specialist journals.

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Shiota likes to work with threads and everyday objects strung together: in her installations, old beds, window frames, clothes, shoes, suitcases or keys appear in an apparently impenetrable, mysterious tangle of strands. Over the past decade, the thread has become Shiota’s artistic trademark. As they enmesh the exhibition halls, the tangles, like so many emblems of how human relationships develop, represent the richly symbolic notions of remembering again and again. Szentendre Gallery had given home to the installation that comprises hundreds of kilometres of red thread and over twenty thousand old keys, which the public contributed in Hungary and abroad.