Members-Only Tour: Chiharu Shiota at Japan Society

In honor of the Poster House’s recent exhibition, Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace, members are invited to a private tour of Japan Society’s exhibition, Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries. 

In this exhibition, which commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Shiota explores wartime experiences and memories centered on a newly commissioned site-specific installation. She addresses parallels between the humanitarian tragedy of war and her personal struggles as she confronts her own mortality and her bicultural identity. Shiota draws connections between collective and personal experience and memory, contemplating such universal themes as history, humanity, loss, time, space, the body, and national identity.

Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972) is a contemporary artist best known for her ephemeral installations in which fragments of memory are woven within webs of yarn that consume entire exhibition spaces. Shiota studied painting in Japan before training in performance art in Berlin, Germany, where she continues to live and work today. In her performances, she often presents her physical body as a canvas, coating it in red paint or smearing it with earth.

This event will take place at Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017.

Accessibility Note: As this is an off-site event, masks and clear masks are available free of charge with prior notification. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART. Japan Society is committed to offering programs and services that are accessible to all visitors. Public performance spaces, classrooms and restrooms are ADA compliant and accessible to everyone. We offer free gallery admission to patrons with disabilities and an accompanying Personal Care Assistant.