Chiharu Shiota: The Extended Line, 2023-2024 / Art Basel 2024 Unlimited
Chiharu Shiota: The Extended Line, 2023 - 2024 / Templon at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited, Basel (Switzerland), June 13, 2024. Official description: Chiharu Shiota’s The Extended Line is rooted in Shiota’s personal experience as a cancer survivor but is intended to connect with the personal experience of the audience. ‘What does it mean to be human? I am asking questions that I believe every person is dealing with during their lifetime and not really getting to a clear conclusion. I believe in the strength of asking those questions together. While we have no answer, we still have the same suffering, regrets, and joys in life.’
The free-standing 16 × 9 meter installation consists of hundreds of kilometers of red ropes hanging above the artist’s open hands and arms from which red papers seem to be flying out.
Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka) is often inspired by a personal experience or emotion which she expands into universal human concerns: life, death, and relationships. She explores this sensation of a ‘presence in the absence’ in her work. Shiota lives and works in Berlin.
Chiharu Shiota’s The Extended Line is rooted in Shiota’s personal experience as a cancer survivor but is intended to connect with the personal experience of the audience. ‘What does it mean to be human? I am asking questions that I believe every person is dealing with during their lifetime and not really getting to a clear conclusion. I believe in the strength of asking those questions together. While we have no answer, we still have the same suffering, regrets, and joys in life.’
The free-standing 16 × 9 meter installation consists of hundreds of kilometers of red ropes hanging above the artist’s open hands and arms from which red papers seem to be flying out.
Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka) is often inspired by a personal experience or emotion which she expands into universal human concerns: life, death, and relationships. She explores this sensation of a ‘presence in the absence’ in her work. Shiota lives and works in Berlin.
The free-standing 16 × 9 meter installation consists of hundreds of kilometers of red ropes hanging above the artist’s open hands and arms from which red papers seem to be flying out.
Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka) is often inspired by a personal experience or emotion which she expands into universal human concerns: life, death, and relationships. She explores this sensation of a ‘presence in the absence’ in her work. Shiota lives and works in Berlin.
Chiharu Shiota’s The Extended Line is rooted in Shiota’s personal experience as a cancer survivor but is intended to connect with the personal experience of the audience. ‘What does it mean to be human? I am asking questions that I believe every person is dealing with during their lifetime and not really getting to a clear conclusion. I believe in the strength of asking those questions together. While we have no answer, we still have the same suffering, regrets, and joys in life.’
The free-standing 16 × 9 meter installation consists of hundreds of kilometers of red ropes hanging above the artist’s open hands and arms from which red papers seem to be flying out.
Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka) is often inspired by a personal experience or emotion which she expands into universal human concerns: life, death, and relationships. She explores this sensation of a ‘presence in the absence’ in her work. Shiota lives and works in Berlin.