Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles

MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin presents Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles, curated by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum, who conceived the original idea for the exhibition, and Davide Quadrio, director of MAO, with curatorial assistance from Anna Musini and Francesca Filisetti.

This major monographic exhibition of the Japanese artist’s work will be held at MAO in Italian debut – and for the first time anywhere at an Asian art museum – after have been hosted at a series of prestigious international institutions, including the Grand Palais, Paris, the Busan Museum of Art, the Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and the Shenzhen Art Museum.

It is a wide-ranging, complex, expressively powerful exhibition that traces back over all of Shiota’s production, through drawings, photographs, sculptures and some of her most famous environmental and monumental installations.

Often inspired by personal experiences, Chiharu Shiota’s works explore the intangible – memories, emotions, dream-like images and visions, offering silent spaces for contemplation – and raise questions about universal and existential concepts like identity, the relationship with the Other and life and death.