Chiharu Shiota: In search of a destination

Chiharu Shiota’s set up Accumulation: Exploring for the Desired destination is designed from approx. 430 oscillating suitcases, the get the job done motivated by the discovery of outdated newspapers in a suitcase she identified in Berlin. All factors have their individual, innate recollections, and in this situation, the suitcases suggest the recollections, movement and migration of strangers the pretty journeys of people’s lives. Watch the work in ‘Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles’ at the Gallery of Fashionable Art (GOMA), Brisbane until 3 October 2022.

Linked: The Soul Trembles in Brisbane

Shiota recollects… I started off accumulating suitcases. I applied to go to flea marketplaces in Berlin and I arrived across an previous suitcase with a very previous newspaper from 1947 within. I was fascinated by it and started accumulating much more. It is an inspiration of each day motion and hence unique existence and thoughts. What is existence, what does it suggest to be alive, what are our anticipations or exactly where are we hoping to go? Each and every unique human being carries only the required matters when traveling…

Men and women depart their hometowns with a destination in brain.

Residing amongst men and women of different nationalities,

I suddenly forget about that I am Japanese.

Wanting at by yourself reflected in a mirror,

you recognize for the initially time that you have black hair and black eyes.

The further more you drift and the more you combine,

the extra you get there at a put that allows you to stare tricky at on your own, anew.

When I glance at a heaping pile of suitcases,

all I see is a corresponding quantity of human life.

Why did these persons go away the place they ended up born,

in research of some desired destination?

Why did they go on this voyage?

I feel again on the inner thoughts of these men and women

on the early morning of their departure.

Chiharu Shiota

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The Gallery of Modern day Art (GOMA) is the distinctive Australian location for ‘Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles’ in The Fairfax Gallery (1.1), Gallery 1.2 and the Eric & Marion Taylor Gallery (1.3), GOMA, Brisbane from 18 June – 3 Oct 2022.

Organised by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Fashionable Art (QAGOMA) and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and curated by Mami Kataoka, Director, Mori Artwork Museum, Tokyo.

Highlighted impression: Chiharu Shiota / Installation look at of Accumulation: Hunting for the Vacation spot 2014/2022 in ‘The Soul Trembles’, GOMA, Brisbane / Photograph: C Callistermon © QAGOMA

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