塩田千春さんのインスタグラム写真 - (塩田千春Instagram)「#Repost @koeniggalerie ・・・ We are delighted to announce the solo exhibition THE WALL BEHIND THE WINDOWS by Chiharu Shiota (@chiharushiota) in the Chapel at St. Agnes opening in conjunction with Berlin Art Week 2023. For THE WALL BEHIND THE WINDOWS, Chiharu Shiota has turned the former Chapel at St. Agnes into one of her intricately threaded sculptures, on a scale that fills every inch of the exhibition space. Rather than entering the space perambulatorily, Shiota has devised a way for the interaction itself with her work to reflect the nature of the objects that feature most prominently within it: windows. Shiota has been collecting discarded windows around Berlin ever since first arriving in the city in the late 1990s. Like the Japanese-born artist’s labyrinthine installations that envelop everyday keepsakes in delicate fibers, effectively turning them into materializations of memory, the window holds special significance in Shiota’s cosmos as a threshold device: it protects one from the outside and yet allows visual access to all that lies within its purview. The windows have never been displayed within a threaded context before, which makes their appearance in the earlier liturgical spaces of a former church all the more resonant. Collecting and repurposing these windows in this show pays tribute to their heritage both as objects and devices that once allowed those who stood before or beneath them to experience separation and distance in visual terms. At the center of the installation is a sewing machine, itself a device that recalls the material that surrounds it, pointing to the otherwise invisible networks of associations that Shiota renders visible. This, ultimately, is what Shiota has achieved with THE WALL BEHIND THE WINDOWS – an excavation of something cast aside that in all its obdurate materiality still manages to speak its own language of remembrance. CHIHARU SHIOTA | THE WALL BEHIND THE WINDOWS 13 SEPTEMBER – 11 NOVEMBER 2023 PUBLIC OPENING 13 SEPTEMBER 2023 | 5–9 PM #KönigGalerie #KönigExhibition #ChiharuShiota Images: Photos by Roman März. © Courtesy of the artist and König Galerie」9月12日 20時45分