Chiharu Shiota, a storyteller and poetry weaver, has been sending her arachnid clouds beneath part of the Grand Palais since the beginning of December with an exhibition entitled "The Soul Trembles."
Its monumental installations, worthy of the monument that houses them, unfurl its emblematic silk threads over a 1200 m2 route offering works like successive emotional tableaux to be traversed.
Arch, cocoon, volutes or even whirlpools, the works of the Japanese artist offer us a ballet where precision and confusion harmonize perfectly and of which dreaminess remains the high point.
The one who says she "paints in three dimensions" projects us into her universe which questions, with casual candor, the complexity of human links, intimate networks, between delicacy, distance, tenuous links and solitude.
This titanic work took 10 days of weaving and embroidery to install and offers a unique immersive experience at the heart of Chiharu Shiota's organic and sensitive work.
Grace and poetry as only the Japanese magician knows how to concoct them.
“The soul trembles” Chiharu Shiota
Until March 19, 2025
Grand Palais • 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower • 75008 Paris
