New Solo Exhibition Catalogue: Chiharu Shiota Threads of Life

The solo exhibition catalogue produced by Hayward Gallery provides a comprehensive visual and critical exploration of the artist’s immersive, thread-based installations. Known for her large-scale networks of yarn, these site-specific, emotionally charged environments explore themes of life, death, memory, the human body, and what the artist describes as “existence in the absence.”

The publication includes installation views from past exhibitions, including works that have been reimagined for the solo exhibition Threads of Life, currently on view at Hayward Gallery. The catalogue also features an essay by curator Yung Ma and an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by novelist Yoko Tawada.

Now available at the Southbank Centre Shop and online.

New Solo Exhibition Catalogue: Chiharu Shiota The Soul Trembles

The new solo catalogue has been published to accompany the comprehensive exhibition The Soul Trembles at the Museum of Oriental Art (MAO) in Turin, Italy. The publication is a reprint of the original 2019 catalogue produced for the exhibition’s debut at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, now enriched with new material specific to the MAO presentation.
The catalogue features extensive images from the Turin installation, along with archival material presented at the exhibition. In addition to the reprinted texts by Mami Kataoka and the interview with Andrea Jahn, this edition includes a new interview with Davide Quadrio and Anna Musini in conversation with Shiota and Kataoka, as well as a newly commissioned text by Beatrice Merz.
The beautiful illustrated bilingual catalogue, published in Italian and English by Silvana Editoriale is available at the museum shop.