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America Age > Blog > Art & Books > By way of Fairy Lights and Butterflies, Chiharu Shiota Tethers Presence and Absence
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By way of Fairy Lights and Butterflies, Chiharu Shiota Tethers Presence and Absence

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In one of many foundational texts of Taoism, Chinese language thinker Zhuang Zhou remembers a dream through which he was a butterfly, hovering by the sky with no recollection of his human type. Upon waking, although, he finds himself firmly in a bipedal physique, prompting an necessary query: is he a butterfly dreaming he’s Zhuang Zhou or a person dreaming he’s a butterfly?

This historical story of transformation and the skinny line between states of thoughts informs a stunning new set up by Chiharu Shiota (beforehand). “Metamorphosis of Consciousness” suspends glimmering lights and faint butterfly wings above an iron-framed twin mattress topped with a white blanket and pillow. Rejecting the strict separation between physique and thoughts, Shiota references her perception within the spirit’s capability to endure lengthy after one’s closing breath. “While each time we slip into sleep, it is a rehearsal for death—a journey beyond the body,” she says.

“Metamorphosis of Consciousness” (2025), combined media, dimensions variable

Exemplary of the artist’s curiosity in reminiscence and data, “Metamorphosis of Consciousness” is simply one of many immersive works within the monumental exhibition Silent Vacancy at Pink Brick Artwork Museum in Beijing.

On view by August 31, the present revolves round Shiota’s ongoing explorations into the “presence in absence,” this time extending such inquiries into concepts of vacancy because it pertains to Jap philosophy and enlightenment.

Included within the exhibtion is an vintage Tibetan Buddhist doorway that anchors “Gateway to Silence,” an explosive set up that entwines the elaborately carved wooden construction in a dense, criss-crossing labyrinth of string. Pink thread, one of many artist’s favored supplies, symbolizes relationships. And on this case, it’s an invite to introspection and discovering an consciousness of the current second.

Metaphorically interlacing artwork, reminiscence, and religion, Shiota very actually visualizes the intextricable internet through which we’re all certain, no matter geography or period. Items like “Echoes of Time” and “Rooted Memories” incorporate supplies like soil and huge stones, presenting the passage of time as cyclical and the previous as all the time shaping the current.

red string crisscrosses to wrap an elaborately carved structure
Element of “Gateway to Silence” (2025), vintage porch and crimson wool, dimensions variable

Born in Osaka, the artist has lived in Berlin for a lot of her life, and Silent Vacancy additionally tethers her roots to extra world experiences. Shiota likened her understanding of herself to the best way salt molecules seem as crystals solely after water evaporates. “I was not visible as an individual in Japan,” she says. “Whereas I did not know who I was, what I wanted to do, and what was necessary in the water, I feel that I became an individual and crystal, and understood those things for the first time by coming to Germany.”

One other instance of discovering presence in absence, Shiota’s migration and expertise of discovery offers an necessary touchstone for her pondering and follow. She provides, “Absence does not signify disappearance but rather an integration into a vaster universe, re-entering the flow of time and forming new connections with all things.” (by way of designboom)

red string crisscrosses to wrap an elaborately carved structure while viewers walk around it
“Gateway to Silence” (2025, vintage porch and crimson wool, dimensions variable
red string crisscrosses to wrap an elaborately carved structure
Element of “Gateway to Silence” (2025, vintage porch and crimson wool, dimensions variable
white glimmering tendrils dangle around a small twin bed
Element of “Metamorphosis of Consciousness” (2025), combined media, dimensions variable
red string drapes around a wooden boat atop a pile of soil
“Rooted Memories” (2025), crimson rope, boat, and earth, dimensions variable
red string drapes around a wooden boat atop a pile of soil while people walk nearby
“Rooted Memories” (2025), crimson rope, boat, and earth, dimensions variable
red string drapes around a wooden boat with a tree branch poking out
Element of “Rooted Memories” (2025), crimson rope, boat, and earth, dimensions variable
“Multiple Realities” (2025), combined media, dimensions variable
black string spreads across a gallery and wraps large rocks
“Echoes of Time” (2025), black yarn and rock, dimensions variable
black string spreads across a gallery and wraps large rocks
“Echoes of Time” (2025), black yarn and rock, dimensions variable

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