Just like the spider that weaves its net, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota takes over the Musée Guimet in Paris. Thus draped in purple, the Nationwide Museum of Asian Arts in Paris takes on a complete new dimension. Will you get caught up within the net of this fascinating exhibition?

In Paris, the Guimet Museum is the shortest path to Asia. At this very second, we’re discovering the fascinating exhibition “The Bow and the Saber”, devoted to the Samurai. However it isn’t the one exhibition to take over the Nationwide Museum of Asian Arts in Paris. Since this Wednesday, March 16, the ambiguous works of Chiharu Shiota have come to insinuate themselves…

On the event of his 14th Carte blanche to up to date artworkthe Guimet Museum invitations the world well-known Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. To offer form to her works, the one who represented Japan in 2015 on the Venice Biennale makes use of yarn as a cloth. From the Purple string which predominates in his paradoxical works, Chiharu Shiota invitations viewers to mirror on the hyperlinks that unite us, the screens that separate us and what undoes human societies.

On the Guimet Museum, for his very first solo exhibition in a French museum, Chiharu Shiota tackles nervousness within the age of Covid. Together with his spectacular installations of stretched threads, the artist weaves a fancy protecting community round a each day life that has turn out to be tiny. On the Nationwide Museum of Asian Arts, on a regular basis objects on show are all trapped in an internet. By way of this exhibition, the artist confronts the notions of oppression and choking on the unusual sensation of safety. A duality that we’ve all been confronted with in occasions of confinement…

Nationwide Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet. 6 place d’Iéna, 75 116 Paris