EXHIBITION IDENTITY

Rain of Memories

Chiharu Shiota Exhibition

at Szentendre Gallery, Hungary
Curator: Gábor Gulyás

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.

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.

'WE COLLECT KEYS' CAMPAIGN

Special thanks to all of those who have offered their disused keys for the installation of the exhibition!

Curator: Gábor Gulyás

Assistant curator: Zsuzsanna Iberhalt

Head of communication: Gabriella Liptay

Campaign manager: Helga Philipp

Art direction & graphic design: Tímea Andorka

Photo: Balázs Deim, Tímea Andorka

Printing: Plot GL, Print City Europe Zrt.

Installation: Chiharu Shiota and her Team, Robin Kecskés and Plot GL

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