03/05/19 - Five mts above, hanging from the ceiling of the Ginza Six Mall in Tokyo, Chiharu Shiota (Japan, 1972) has displayed an installation made with six boats. The piece, multidimensional, rocks in the sky as a results of the random air currents, surrounded by a cloud that hides or reveals the boats as we move around. Movement is a common ingredient in all of Shiota's artworks because of her interest in defining the migration of people, objects and time. And she wonders: Are we ready to part, even if we don't know where we are going? What are we chasing? What does it mean to be alive?
The boats of this installation refer to the difficulties the Japanese people had to "navigate" to heal after the war. Each one of them differ in hight and orientation, leaving to us visitors the decision to create their journey to another dimension as we move from floor to floor around the mall.