Chiharu Shiota: Tracing Boundaries | Exhibition

Espoo Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Space

Ahertajantie 5, 02070 Espoo,Finland COPY Direction

Event Date: End 2022-10-27 11:00 ~ 2022-11-27 19:00

Project Key : #Installation, #Collaboration, #memory

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Chiharu Shiota: Tracing Boundaries | Exhibition

Espoo Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Space

Ahertajantie 5, 02070 Espoo,Finland COPY Direction

Event Date: End 2022-10-27 11:00 ~ 2022-11-27 19:00

Project Key : #Installation, #Collaboration, #memory

https://emmamuseum.fi/en/
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Tracing Boundaries by Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972) transforms EMMA’s open concrete gallery space into an immersive labyrinth of red yarn. Commissioned by the Saastamoinen Foundation, the piece is being featured in a special series of exhibitions hosted in collaboration with EMMA.

Chiharu Shiota, Tracing Boundaries, 2021. © Paula Virta / EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972, Osaka, Japan) has created an immersive installation for EMMA consisting of tautly crisscrossing threads. Visitors are invited to enter the maze of yarn, which encloses a sequence of old doors that open alternative routes through the work.

Shiota has been working with threads since her student days. Initially she studied painting, but finding the canvas and paper too limiting, she searched for a more physical, holistic way to create art.

After the exhibition, the installation will become a permanent addition to the foundation’s art collection. The tangled red yarn generates “spaces within space“, a signature hallmark of Shiota’s art, inviting visitors on a journey into inner worlds and personal memories.

Chiharu Shiota, Tracing Boundaries, 2021. © Paula Virta / EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art

“Tracing Boundaries” will be on display at EMMA from October 27, 2021, to November 27, 2022.

Chiharu Shiota is a Berlin-based Japanese artist renowned internationally for her large-scale, immersive yarn installations. Created especially for EMMA, Tracing Boundaries is an installation consisting of tangled webs of crisscrossing red string. Embedded in this maze are old doors that create pathways through the work. There is no right path or entrance to take – every visitor is free to follow the route of their choice.

Accepted 2022-03-14 09:42

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