Chiharu Shiota: Infinite Memory

20 September 2025 — 12 April 2026

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Shiota's vast red-cord installation wraps three towering dresses in a meditation on memory, identity, and the female body. Intimate and immersive.

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Chiharu Shiota's signature red cord falls like rain throughout this room. Red is an important colour for the artist, representing the essence of life: blood, with all the information that it carries about us, and the sun, which brings life to our world. In this work, the cord envelops three towering red dresses. For Shiota, dresses are like a second skin, evoking a woman's body and its indelible memories and experiences....

About the Artist

Chiharu Shiota

Japanese · b. 1972

Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese installation artist based in Berlin. Known for vast thread and rope environments that explore memory, identity, and human connection, she uses symbolic objects—dresses, keys, suitcases, shoes—as anchors within her immersive webs.