Chiharu Shiota: The Extended Line, 2023 - 2024 / Templon at Art Basel 2024 Unlimited, Basel (Switzerland), June 13, 2024. Official description: Chiharu Shiota’s The Extended Line is rooted in Shiota’s personal experience as a cancer survivor but is intended to connect with the personal experience of the audience. ‘What does it mean to be human? I am asking questions that I believe every person is dealing with during their lifetime and not really getting to a clear conclusion. I believe in the strength of asking those questions together. While we have no answer, we still have the same suffering, regrets, and joys in life.’<br /><br />The free-standing 16 × 9 meter installation consists of hundreds of kilometers of red ropes hanging above the artist’s open hands and arms from which red papers seem to be flying out.<br /><br />Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka) is often inspired by a personal experience or emotion which she expands into universal human concerns: life, death, and relationships. She explores this sensation of a ‘presence in the absence’ in her work. Shiota lives and works in Berlin.<br />Chiharu Shiota’s The Extended Line is rooted in Shiota’s personal experience as a cancer survivor but is intended to connect with the personal experience of the audience. ‘What does it mean to be human? I am asking questions that I believe every person is dealing with during their lifetime and not really getting to a clear conclusion. I believe in the strength of asking those questions together. While we have no answer, we still have the same suffering, regrets, and joys in life.’<br />The free-standing 16 × 9 meter installation consists of hundreds of kilometers of red ropes hanging above the artist’s open hands and arms from which red papers seem to be flying out.<br />Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka) is often inspired by a personal experience or emotion which she expands into universal human concerns: life, death, and relationships. She explores this sensation of a ‘presence in the absence’ in her work. Shiota lives and works in Berlin.
