In the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", an exhibition of the Japanese artist Chiharu Ciotat "crossed". It is an ambitious installation of a snow-white dresses, black braided wool cobwebs

Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", April 19 - May 18, 2013
Moscow, Manege Square, 1

Moscow project by the Japanese artist Chiharu Ciotat "crossed" - about women and the eternal. A few snow-white dresses (Veil and /or a shroud?) Epic proportions (2.20 m each) are braided black wool cobwebs that fills the corners of the walls, floor, ceiling, and comes straight at the viewer, pulling it into the installation space. The exhibition is created directly in the public eye: the first week of the audience will observe the work of volunteers, black yarn tensioning around the phantasmagoric garments hanging from the ceiling. The whole process of weaving is recorded on video - and after the creation of the installation is completed - start recording broadcast on the screen. "The line is too pure - says Shiota - too noticeable. Triangles on triangles form a complex structure that hides much of the human eye ... In the winter, when I walk through the park and look at the trees, it seems to me that they like my work ».

Chiharu Shiota After sleeping. 2012 Source: Press Release «Manege»

Chiharu Shiota Maze memory. 2012 Source: Press Release «Manege»

White dresses Ciotat - a kind of "empty" sign, shell, never mindful of the former inside the body, a ghost that lives in the space between worlds. Black Wool - threads of memory shackles of fear, inside-out root system and rhizome network of relationships - the relationship between humans and ghosts. "Human life is probably connected with the cosmos, - says the artist. - Perhaps death - is not extinction, but a merger with eternity ... "This work Ciotat original and organically exist in the context of world history and contemporary art, referring to the cells of Louise Bourgeois, Annette Messager voila, total installation Yayoi Kusama, performance Yoko Ono Nakhova and gowns "Factory of Found Clothes».

Chiharu Shiota Maze memory. 2012 Source: Press Release «Manege»

Chiharu Shiota Maze memory. 2012 Source: Press Release «Manege»

Shiota was born in 1972 -m in Osaka, studied painting at Kyoto University, trained in Australia and Germany. Shiota started out as a performance artist - she studied with Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn - and the last of his spatial installations also believes much of bodily practices: "I started working with threads in 1992 - explains the artist. - I went to the painter, and wanted to draw in the air black hair ... If I plet something and I is something ugly, tangled and knotty, then the matter is that my mood. " Shiota often "works" with its own memory: a burning piano and rows of empty chairs from a neighbor's house burned down, the grass on the grave of my grandmother ... And many things in installations Ciotat represented artifacts of collective memory: second-hand shoes with associated stories of owners and a giant tower of old glass frames.

project Chiharu Ciotat "Crossed" takes place on the third floor of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", located on the ground floor which presented several projects on the topic of the afterlife: the «Odyssey» , «Thinking about death" and "My most important suitcase", which will allow the viewer to watch a panorama of artistic interpretations of this timeless topic.

Source : Press Release «Manege»