well received by critics<\/a>, as was \u201cBetween Worlds\u201d at Istanbul Modern. That same year also marked her largest U.S. show to date, \u201cChiharu Shiota: Home Less Home,\u201d at the Institute of Contemporary Art Watershed in Boston, as well as presentations in Spain and Beijing.<\/p>\nAt the Asian Art Museum,\u00a0 her current show\u2019s title installation \u201cTwo Home Countries\u201d from 2025, shares the galleries with \u201cDiary.\u201d The work shows two metal house forms connected by a dress-form sculpture made of red rope that reaches toward the symbolic homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chiharu Shiota\u2019s exhibition, \u201cTwo Home Countries,\u201d is on view through July 20 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Lizzy Montana Myers\/For the S.F. Chronicle<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I stay in Japan, I miss Germany. When I stay in Germany, I miss Japan,\u201d\u00a0Shiota pithily explained of the piece\u2019s meaning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The red ropes have gesture and movement that resemble brushstrokes, which the Shiota noted is a nod to her initial ambitions as an artist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to be a painter, but I made installations,\u201d she said of her practice. \u201cBut still I feel I\u2019m painting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those same qualities are true of \u201cOut of My Body,\u201d a 2022 sculpture that shows a pair of bronze feet with red leather netting that seems to expand outward where the legs, torso and head would be. The work was created while Shiota, a double cancer survivor, was undergoing chemotherapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I was not connected with my body,\u201d\u00a0Shiota recalled of that time. \u201cThe human body is fragile. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t use a solid material on top.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A detail of the installation, \u201cBeyond my Body,\u201d on view through July 20 at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Lizzy Montana Myers\/For the S.F. Chronicle<\/p>\n
Shiota\u2019s cancer experience emerges again in a series of glass forms, including 2024\u2019s \u201cCell,\u201d which resembles human organs wrapped in red wire.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something about these that are very uncontrolled,\u201d said Mintz. \u201cThey\u2019re chaotic, like a mass that is of the body, but not the body.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among her video works, \u201cEarth and Blood,\u201d created in 2013 after a miscarriage by the artist, is among the most intense.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Showing Shiota wiping a red substance across the screen, it was filmed when she was at an emotional low, avoiding going out in public. The white space where she filmed the work contrasts starkly with the red blood, not unlike the white of the journal pages against the red yarn of \u201cDiary.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The work feels like the visual equivalent of a primal scream.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe topics, the themes that she deals with in this exhibit are so heavy,\u201d said Lee. \u201cBut there\u2019s such beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A view of \u201cDiary,\u201d an installation in Chiharu Shiota\u2019s exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,2224,241076,227,229,88,5284],"class_list":["post-652334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-arts-and-exhibits","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}