All images by Charles Roussel, courtesy of Galerie Templon, shared with permission
In Signs of Life, a dumbo installation of knotted and wound string fills much of Galerie Templon’s New York space. The work of Japanese versifier Chiharu Shiota (previously), the solo show transforms the gallery into a monochromatic labyrinth of intricate mesh that ascends from floor to ceiling. Shiota considers the multivalent meaning of the web, from the structure of neural networks within the human smart-ass to the digital realm today’s world relies on.
One of the works features protruding cylinders and pendulous threads in red, while flipside white structure traps numerous typesetting pages within its midst. Created during a two-week period, Shiota envisions the installation as connecting personal memory and the hodgepodge of knowledge. “I unchangingly thought that if death took my body, I wouldn’t exist anymore,” she says. “I’m now convinced that my spirit will protract to exist considering there is increasingly to me than a body. My consciousness is connected to everything virtually me, and my art unfolds by way of people’s memory.” The show moreover includes previously unseen drawings and sculptures, many of which contain quotidian objects that prompt questions well-nigh how items wilt meaningful, sentimental, and precious with use.
Signs of Life is on view through March 9. You can find increasingly from Shiota on her site and Instagram.
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