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SHIOTA: Installation views

A detail view of a room-filling installation: seen through what appears as a curtain of black threads, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a tornado-like spiral.

Chiharu Shiota / Japan/Germany b.1972 / Installation view of A question of perspective 2022 in ‘The Soul Trembles’, GOMA, June 2022 / Polypropylene ropes, 80gsm  paper, found furniture, cable ties, staples / Commissioned 2022 with funds from Tim Fairfax AC through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Chiharu Shiota / Photograph: Merinda Campbell, QAGOMA

 

An detail view of a room-filling installation: seen through what appears as a curtain of black threads, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a tornado-like spiral. In the background, the exit from the gallery space is lit in pink.

Chiharu Shiota / Japan/Germany b.1972 / Installation view of A question of perspective 2022 in ‘The Soul Trembles’, GOMA, June 2022 / © Chiharu Shiota / Photograph: Merinda Campbell, QAGOMA

 

An installation view of a work that fills a whole room; at the centre, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a spiral. Suspended around this scene is a web of black threads.

Chiharu Shiota / Japan/Germany b.1972 / Installation view of A question of perspective 2022 in ‘The Soul Trembles’, GOMA, June 2022 / © Chiharu Shiota / Photograph: Merinda Campbell, QAGOMA

 

Artwork A question of perspective this artwork made of Polypropylene ropes, 80gsm paper, found furniture, cable ties, staples, created in 2022-01-01

A question of perspective 2022


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A shoulders-up view of a woman standing in front of her installed artwork, which is in shadow; she has long dark hair and wears dark clothing.

VIDEO: Shiota introduces her work

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An installation view of a room completely webbed in bright red thread, some of which is tied down to metal boat structures on the gallery floor. A visitor walks through this red space.

VIDEO: A curator's perspective

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An installation view of a work that fills a whole room; at the centre, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a spiral. Suspended around this scene is a web of black threads.

ESSAY: The presence of absence

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A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

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A shoulders-up view of a woman standing in front of her installed artwork, which is in shadow; she has long dark hair and wears dark clothing.

VIDEO: Shiota introduces her work

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An installation view of a work that fills a whole room; at the centre, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a spiral. Suspended around this scene is a web of black threads.

ESSAY: The presence of absence

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An installation view of a room completely webbed in bright red thread, some of which is tied down to metal boat structures on the gallery floor. A visitor walks through this red space.

VIDEO: A curator's perspective

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An detail view of a room-filling installation: seen through what appears as a curtain of black threads, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a tornado-like spiral. In the background, the exit from the gallery space is lit in pink.

SHIOTA: Installation views

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