Chiharu Shiota. Everyone, a Universe
By Charlotte Stace
The work of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota will be shown at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Her artwork breathes a universality that appeals to the hearts and minds of people of different generations and nationalities.
She produces large scale installations that invite the viewer to be part of this collective, immersive experience. Her work is inspired by memory, trauma and uncertainty - concerns shared by all humans.
In honour of her work and talent, the Fundació has invited Shiota to create a site-specific installation within the exhibition spaces of the museum. The dialogue with the institution unfolds in a double sense: physical, responding to the architecture; and symbolic, acknowledging the parallels with Tàpies. In this sense, the relationship with the earth, with past and memory, and the exchange between presence and absence, will allow the artist to weave a rereading of the past through evocation, but with an eye on the contemporary moment.