Sortir à Paris : The Soul Trembles: Chiharu Shiota's reopening exhibition at the Grand Palais (by Graziella)
Photos by Caroline de Sortiraparis
The Grand Palais is celebrating its reopening with an exhibition by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, known for her installations of interwoven woollen threads, to be admired under the glass roof from December 11, 2024 to March 19, 2025.
The Grand Palais reopens its doors after years of renovation with an exhibition, and not just any exhibition, ascontemporary art lovers eagerlyawait the return of this artist to Paris, Chiharu Shiota! The Japanese artist with the red thread returns from December 11, 2024 to March 19, 2025, to weave her web under the capital's most famous glass roof with her unique and poetic installation.
Following on from"Memory Under The Skin" at Galerie Templon Grenier Saint-Lazare,"The Soul Trembles" explores the vulnerability of life through a monographic exhibition co-organized with Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, the most important on the artist. The Grand Palais, in a preview to the reopening of its galleries in June 2025, is hosting seven monumental installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, performance videos and archival documents relating to his staging project and his 20-year career.
Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1972, Chiharu Shiota combines performance, body art and installations in a process that places the body at its center. Her sensitive work is based oninstallations of interwoven woollen threads, creating spectacular graphic networks, a journey in which visitors must find their way and their place. An art of entanglement that explores notions of temporality and movement, and this time, vulnerability, "the tremors of one's own soul", based on her life experience that she wishes to share with the public.
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