Chiharu Shiota's exhibition 'Silent Emptiness' at the Red Brick Art Museum showcases her unique blend of Eastern philosophy and personal narrative through site-specific installations. Running until August 31, 2025, the exhibition features Shiota responding to the museum's architecture, exploring themes of life, death, and memory. Key works include 'Metamorphosis of Consciousness,' embodying the concept of transitions with butterfly imagery, and 'Gateway to Silence,' where red threads symbolize karma and identity. Through her art, Shiota addresses cultural displacement and the transformative power of absence within a tactile framework.
'While each time we slip into sleep, it is a rehearsal for death - a journey beyond the body,' the artist reflects.
Invisible in Japan, her identity became distinct only after relocating to Berlin. The residue of memory, like salt, crystallizes through absence.
Emptiness becomes liberation, the moment between inhale and exhale, between form and formlessness.
Shiota transforms the space into a web of introspection, with emptiness transforming into a charged field of presence, connecting the threads of life, death, and time.
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