Chiharu Shiota The Hand Lines Edition Menene Gras Balaguer General Coordination Rodrigo Escamilla Sandoval Clarissa Seidel Texts Menene Gras Balaguer, Toshikatsu Omori, Madoka Matsumura, Kelly Long, Mami Kataoka, Akiko Kasuya, Hitoshi Nakano, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Akira Tatehata, Andrea Jahn Translations Amaia Judge, Olga Miró (Spanish) Angela Bunning (English) Brian Amstutz Communications (The Works of Chiharu Shiota - A Study) Pamela Miki (Eloquent Silence) Christopher Stephens (The Work of Dreams) Kikuko Ogawa (What Lies in the World of Silence, Something Wriggling in the Distant Quietude, Where Chiharu Shiota Belongs) Miwako Tezuka (The Allegory of Absence) Stephen Lindberg (Chiharu Shiota’s Way into Silence: Moving inside the Eternal Triangle in Art) Proofreading Olga Miró, Angela Bunning, Menene Gras Balaguer, Atelier Chiharu Shiota Photographs Sunhi Mang Except: • Trace of Memory(2013), Tom Little • Tristan und Isolde(2014), Olaf Struck Cover Chiharu Shiota State of Being (Children’s Dress), 2013. Metal, dress, red thread
Published by Actar Publishers Casa Asia Graphic Design Papersdoc Printing and binding Grafos S.A., Barcelona © of the edition Actar Publishers, Casa Asia © of the texts Menene Gras Balaguer, Toshikatsu Omori, Madoka Matsumura, Kelly Long, Mami Kataoka, Akiko Kasuya, Hitoshi Nakano, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Akira Tatehata, Andrea Jahn © of the translations Olga Miró, Angela Bunning © of the photographs Chiharu Shiota, Stage design All rights reserved ISBN: 978-1-940291-07-9 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA. With the collaboration of Japan Foundation Galeria Nieves Fernández EACC (Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló) Acknowledgments Chiharu Shiota, Azusa Kuno, Noriko Horie, Athena Tsantekidou, Christina Tsantekidou (Atelier Chiharu Shiota), Hiroyuki Ueno, Rie Okada (Japan Foundation), Nerea Fernández, Idoia Fernández (Galeria Nieves Fernandez), Kenji Taki, Mikako Kato (Kenji Taki Gallery), Lorenza Barboni (EACC), Ámister Hotel, Lanas Stop, Columpiu, La Memoria Artística de Chema Alvargonzález, Narch Arquitectos and Claraboia Espai d’art.