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CHIHARU SHIOTA: THE UNSETTLED SOUL

HAPPENINGText: Nektarianna Saliverou

The polymorphic character of Contemporary Art and its morphoplastic formulations aim to highlight and decode the controversial elements of the Present Reality in the light of the interrelation between Art and Life. The establishment of new forms of expression essentializes the existential identity of the artistic act, inviting the viewer to an a fortiori self-awareness of the immutable elements of life, birth and death namely, but also of all those parameters and components that define the human entity.

Art as an extension of the encounter with the known and the unknown, the conscious and the unconscious, the modification and the transformation, dialogues with the new dimensions imposed by time, deeming the visual result as a perpetual continuation of its pursuits.


Chiharu Siota, Multiple Realities, 2024, installation view, mixed media, © Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic, Photo: Vojtěch Veškrna

The contemporary Japanese artist, Chiharu Siota, who with her multifaceted morphology of language consents to the dialectic between matter and spirituality, balances between conceptualism and symbol, transforming the image into an undeniable synergy of realism with associative valuation.

The Unsettled Soul Exhibition, as Siota’s first solo exhibition presented at the Kunsthalle in Prague, combines multiple gestural expressions, signs, images and morphoplastic signalization, realities and inventions, mental and aesthetic ultimately referentialities. The interpretation of Chiharu Siota’s images constitutes a highly significant process that activates personal memory, but also inaugurates, simultaneously, the conceivable starting point for connecting the inner self with the world.


Chiharu Siota, Silent Concert, 2024, installation view, mixed media, © Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic, Photo: Vojtěch Veškrna

The common characteristic of the Installations compose the recognition of the dynamic of experiential truth that is transformed into universality as the a fortiori point that unitises experiences and distinctnesses. The anthropocentric character of Chiharu Siota’s art emerges through a linguistic diversity that interacts with the dualism of human presence – absence in Multiple Realities and in Silent Concert, highlighting the innovatory character of artistic expression. The momentary and emblematic, realism and allegory, conceptualism and poetic, essentialize the sensory multisignificance that transfigures the subjective into a sine qua non objective dimension.


Chiharu Siota, Crossing Paths with Fate, 2024, installation view, mixed media, © Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic, Photo: Vojtěch Veškrna

The manifold connection of memories, places, personal stories and life imprints, activates morphoplastic incidents that become starting points for the coexistence of realities with the associative but also symbols of the eternal, perpetual space-time. Crossing Paths with Fate and Heart in your Home narrate and participate the encounters with multidimensional stories of mundane life of people and cities that ultimately acquire a universal identity under the light of Siota’s Art. The routes, the inceptions, the contemplations and the dialectics between two points, mental but also tangible, constitute stages of the Japanese artist’s personal journey.


Chiharu Siota, The Heart in your Home, 2024, Installation, metal house, wool, © Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic, Photo: Vojtěch Veškrna

Chiharu Siota’s materialities and objects constitute connotations of traces and moments, of a personal evolution but also of narratives that converse with the nature and character of human presence, transforming Art into a necessity for the inner expression of its undeniable diversity.

Chiharu Shiota: The Unsettled Soul
Date: 28th November, 2024 – 28th April, 2025
Opening Hours: 11:00 – 19:00 (Wednesday till 21:00)
Closed on Tuesday
Place: Kunsthalle Praha
Address: Klárov 5, 118 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic
Tel: +420 241 004 111
https://www.kunsthallepraha.org

Text: Nektarianna Saliverou
Photos: Vojtěch Veškrna © Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic

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