Artist：Chiharu Shiota（JAPAN/GERMANY）
Title：The Boat Which Carries Time
Photo：Kichiro Okamura
艺术家感受到大谷地区广阔的盐田与自己的根有关系，选择了可以眺望外浦沿岸的旧托儿所作为作品的地点。珠洲扬浜式盐田是日本唯一从古代延续下来的产品，至今几次濒临消失的危机。从原本用于运送铺满盐田的优质沙子的取砂船开始，在整个空间里布下红线，编织出传承制盐技术的人们的历史和记忆。
Feeling a strong connection to her roots in the salt fields of the Otani area, the artist chose an old nursery school that overlooks the Sotoura coast as the location for her work. Suzu’s Agehama-style salt production, the only longstanding one of its kind in Japan, has been on the verge of disappearing several times. Red strings stretch from a sand boat that transported the high-quality sand to the fields, extending throughout the venue and spinning a history of the people who preserved and passed on the art of salt-making to the present.
Chiharu Shiota（JAPAN/GERMANY）
1972年出生于大阪府。居住在柏林。
他直面生与死这一人类根本问题，探索“何为生存”、“何为存在”，以大型装置艺术为中心，运用立体、照片、影像等多种手法创作作品。2007年在神奈川县民厅画廊举办的个人展《来自沉默》获得艺术选奖文部科学大臣新人奖。2015年，被选为第56届威尼斯双年展国际美术展日本馆代表。主要个人展有史密森尼博物馆亚瑟·M·萨克勒画廊(2014年)、高知县立美术馆(2013年)、丸龟市猪熊弦一郎现代美术馆(2012年)、国立国际美术馆(2008年)等。多次参加悉尼双年展(2016年)、釜山双年展(2014年)、濑户内国际艺术展(2011年)、大地艺术节越后妻有艺术三年展(2009年)等国际展览。
Born in Osaka in 1972. Resides and works in Berlin.
Confronted with the fundamental issue of humans, life and death, she has presented dynamic installations with using various means including sculpture, photography, and moving images as she explore the questions such as “what it means to live” and “What is the existence”.Received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology´s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, Japan in 2008 for the solo exhibition, "From In Silence / Art Complex", held at Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery (2007, Japan). She was selected for the artist of the Japan pavilion in the 56th Venice Art Biennale in 2015 (Italy). Other major solo exhibitions were held at Smithsonian Institution Arthur M.Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2014, USA), The Museum of Art, Kochi (2014, Japan), Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa (2012, Japan), The National Museum of Art, and Osaka (2008, Japan). She has also participated in many international art festivals including The 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016, Australia), Busan Biennale (2014, South Korea), Setouchi International Art Festival (2010, Teshima Japan), and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (2009, Japan).
“The Key in tha Hand”2015
Photo by Sunhi Mang
“In Silence”2008
Photo by Sunhi Mang
