Chiharu Shiota's site specific...
10:49 a.m.
03/12/19 - At the Muzeum Slaskie in Katowice, some 100 km from Krakow (Poland), Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (1972) presents a site specific artwork which is also interactive. It's a huge cloud of black interwoven yarn occupying the entire gallery, connected with 9 tables and their chairs. The net holds hundreds of white numbers, randomly placed, creating an organic and inter-connected space.
Counting Memories, by Chiharu Shiota
Each table has a piece of paper with a written question for the visitor to answer with a number. For example: How many love stories are still waiting for you? Or what's the most meaningful number in your life? Many of them have to do with our feelings, others with things related to your personal life.
Gallery texts explain that the threads (black, in representation of the universe), distributed throughout the entire space, are there to show how interwoven our stories are and how each number defines us individually, but also connects us to other beings in the universe.
After walking around the 9 tables and answering the questions, it's impossible not to feel moved. The atmosphere feels mystic, solitary (in spite of the interconnection) and, once we let the pencil down on the last page, we feel Shiota, with those simple questions, has been able to delve deep into our past, present and future.
Counting Memories, by Chiharu Shiota
The maze, perfectly made, creates an oneiric and magical attraction, that revives our memories and metaphorically gives value to human connections.
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