The Home Within
CHIHARU SHIOTA
06—23 October
PAST EVENT
AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
Shiota’s labyrinthine installations weave a complex web from waking life and fading memories.
A house is a structure. A home is a body. You are its heart.
Step inside a structure that combines the weight of architecture and the ephemerality of organic life. Weblike lines of textured red string pulse like a billion veins, but en masse they form walls as straight and solid as a slide-rule. Are the borders between this building’s exterior and interior any more reliable than our own?
For the first time in Melbourne, experience the bewitching work of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, whose infinitely intricate installations pluck at the strands connecting our built world and less tangible selves—our criss-crossed pasts and networked futures.
Make yourself at home.
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Deakin Edge, Federation Square
THU 06 OCTOBER from 6—10PM
FRI 07—SUN 09 OCTOBER 10AM—6PM
Meat Market
MON 10—THU 20 OCTOBER 10AM—6PM
Featuring Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity, a sound installation by Martina Copley.
Melbourne Town Hall
SUN 23 OCTOBER 10AM—6PM
CHIHARU SHIOTA: ABSENT BODIES
THU 06 OCTOBER—SAT 05 NOVEMBER
Chiharu Shiota's inaugural solo exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery.
VISUAL ARTS DAY
SUN 09 OCTOBER from 11AM
Make a day of it and discover Melbourne Festival’s Visual Arts program. We have put together two self-directed walking tours for you. Find out more →
IMAGE | Chiharu Shiota, First House, 2014. Installation view (detail): Zorlu Performing Arts Center, Istanbul. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
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Melbourne Festival's free program proudly supported by
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Presented with Anna Schwartz Gallery
