Banco do Brasil Cultural Center presents itinerant retrospective exhibition of Japanese Chiharu Shiota

Curated by Tereza de Arruda, Linhas da Vida brings together works dating from the beginning of Shiota's career, in 1994, to unpublished installations inspired by Brazil.

The transience of life cycles, memory and personal experience itself inspire the work of the Japanese Chiharu Shiota. Known mostly for her large-scale site-specific works, often composed of tangles of lines, Shiota is the author of a multidisciplinary work, unfolded in various media: installations, performances, photographs and paintings. The artist will have her extensive work celebrated in the retrospective show Lines of Life, starting November 13, at the Banco do Brasil São Paulo Cultural Center (CCBB SP). Curated by Tereza de Arruda and produced by Base7 Cultural Projects, the exhibition will also be exhibited at the CCBB units in Brasília (March 3 to May 10, 2020) and in Rio de Janeiro (June 10 to August 31 to 08). 2020).

Born in Osaka and based in Berlin for 23 years, Shiota began her artistic career in 1994, taking painting as her main medium. However, he soon discovered that two-dimensional space was limited to his creative process and expanded to other languages. Life Lines brings together about 70 works dating from the beginning of his artistic production to the present day.
“There are certain motives that accompany Chiharu Shiota throughout her career and appear in parallel in her production, such as personal objects such as keys, clothing, letters, furniture and even icons of transience, such as boats,” explains the curator. “Photographs, videos, drawings, prints and objects have been meticulously selected for immersion in the Chiharu Shiota universe,” he adds.
Organized in five cores, the exhibition is an invitation from Shiota for the visitor to reflect on life, its purpose, connections and memory. “I want to unite people in Brazil, regardless of their origin, social status, educational background, nationality or any other divisive factor. As humans, we must come together and question our purpose in life and why we are here, ”says the artist.