QAGOMA | Chiharu Shiota introduces 'A question of perspective' @QAGOMA_Australia | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Chiharu Shiota's major new commission — A question of perspective — is a dense arrangement of thick black polypropylene ropes and sheets of paper, suspended over an empty table and chair, that touches on themes of absence and vulnerability within Shiota’s practice, and being confronted by the enormity and complexity of existence.
The work harks back to the year she spent as an art student in Australia in the 1990s, when she took the opportunity to travel the country widely. Shiota recalls visiting Uluru in central Australia and observing the vast desert planes around it, which brought to mind the planet’s circumference, the movement of the stars, and the scientific questions that once ‘deprived Galileo of his sleep’.
Chiharu Shiota, Japan/Germany b.1972 / Installation view of 'A question of perspective' 2022 in ‘The Soul Trembles’, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane / Polypropylene ropes, 80mg paper, found furniture, cable ties, staples / 500 x 810 x 1215cm / Commissioned 2022 with funds from Tim Fairfax AC through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Chiharu Shiota
‘Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles’ / The Fairfax Gallery (1.1), Gallery 1.2 and the Eric & Marion Taylor Gallery (1.3), Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane / 18 June – 3 October 2022
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia
© Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2022
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Chiharu Shiota's major new commission — A question of perspective — is a dense arrangement of thick black polypropylene ropes and sheets of paper, suspended over an empty table and chair, that touches on themes of absence and vulnerability within Shiota’s practice, and being confronted by the enormity and complexity of existence.
The work harks back to the year she spent as an art student in Australia in the 1990s, when she took the opportunity to travel the country widely. Shiota recalls visiting Uluru in central Australia and observing the vast desert planes around it, which brought to mind the planet’s circumference, the movement of the stars, and the scientific questions that once ‘deprived Galileo of his sleep’.
Chiharu Shiota, Japan/Germany b.1972 / Installation view of 'A question of perspective' 2022 in ‘The Soul Trembles’, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane / Polypropylene ropes, 80mg paper, found furniture, cable ties, staples / 500 x 810 x 1215cm / Commissioned 2022 with funds from Tim Fairfax AC through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Chiharu Shiota
‘Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles’ / The Fairfax Gallery (1.1), Gallery 1.2 and the Eric & Marion Taylor Gallery (1.3), Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane / 18 June – 3 October 2022
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia
© Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2022
#QAGOMA #ShiotaGOMA #chiharushiota
