Chiharu Shiota: Beyond Time

Acclaimed installation and performance artist Chiharu Shiota created an awe-inspiring, site-specific installation of thread within the beautiful 18th-century Chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 

Shiota is known for large-scale works such as The Key In The Hand (2015), an elaborate entanglement of red thread and keys, which she made when selected to represent Japan at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Shiota’s work for YSP responds to and activates the unique architecture and heritage of the Chapel. Exemplary of her work’s resonance with memory and human relationships through the use of objects, the installation has interlaced the physical with conceptual to create a new visual plane – as if painting in mid-air. 

Embracing all who enter within an extraordinary experience, Shiota’s project references the Chapel’s rich history and years of human presence, dating back to 1744, making poignant allusion to the bells that were rung, the songs that were sung, and the lives that revolved around it, from cradle to grave.

Texts by YSP's director Clare Lilley. Features an interview with Chiharu Shiota and Helen Pheby, PhD. Full colour exhibition photography. Published to coincide with the exhibition, Beyond Time held at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2018.

- Paperback
- Size: 219mm x 270mm
- 40 pages