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Chiharu Shiota
Japan, 1972
Heir of Ana Mendieta and a whole generation of feminist artists form the early 70’s, Shiota works with her body as an intervention space, realizing performances that deal with our link with the earth, the past and the memory.
Well known for her installations with thread as main material, her symmetric tangles captivate the spectator at first sight, creating feelings that go between safety and fear, fascination and ugliness, while awakening memories, and both absence and existence as philosophical matters.
The presence and absence of her body is the thread running through her work, and ultimately is what makes it possible to understand her confrontation with the question of defining the artwork, the artistic subject and the public, the interior and exterior space.
In Shiota’s philosophy the true artwork is created only when the expectations for familiar artistic forms of expression are abandoned in favor of a perception of things that get by without any attributions of meaning.
She has exhibited at institutions such as Gropius Bau, Mori Art Museum, Jameel Art Centre, Gottesborg Museum, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Louisiana Museum, Kiasma, Hayward Gallery, Fundación Sorigué, Palazzo Reale Milano, The Museum of Kyoto, Maison Rouge, MONA Museum, and Mattress Factory, among others.
She represented Japan at the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale. Additionally, she has designed the scenography for the opera Matsukaze alongside Sasha Waltz and for Tristan and Isolde at KielTeater.
Her work is part of collections such as the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Fundación Sorigué, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Kiasma, among others.
Chiharu Shiota
Connected to the Universe
2024
Water-soluble wax pastel, ink and thread on canvas
27,5 x 41,5 cm
Chiharu Shiota
Connected to the Universe
2024
Thread on canvas
42 x 30 cm
Chiharu Shiota. The Soul’s Journey. Fundación Calosa, Mexico. 2025
Chiharu Shiota
Endless Line [CS/C 241109]
2024
Metal frame, suitcases and thread
160 x 140 cm
Chiharu Shiota – Portfolio 2026
Jordi Alcaraz
Spain, 1963
Jordi Alcaraz’s discourse is rooted in the classical tradition of painting and sculpture, leading to a reflection on volume, language, and time through the use of materials such as water, glass, mirrors, reflections, or books that incorporate this concept.
His artistic language is characterized by visual transgression, the interplay of multiple perspectives, and the combination of transparencies and perforations that reveal hidden, almost magical spaces. Through his works, Jordi Alcaraz establishes an unprecedented, surprising, and metaphorical relationship with the world.
Sculptures, paintings, and drawings emerge through his unique treatment of materials and poetic play on words and unexpected titles. He creates compositions where pigment bags seem to sink into glass surfaces, poetically evoking the origin of painting. Wooden sculptures pierce the methacrylate case that contains them, transitioning from the darkness of night to daylight. Colors escape from their containers through imaginary holes. He also produces impossible portraits.
Obsessed with the craft of art, Alcaraz explores in his works the fundamental gestures of drawing, sculpting, and painting. He focuses more on the act of creation than on the artwork as an end result. His recent works emphasize absence rather than presence. What matters is the sensation of drawing: the moment just before the act, the impression left afterward, but not the artwork itself, not the resulting drawing. There is neither image nor reference to any idea. The artist draws, but no drawing remains. What we see is the empty space left by his gesture, the trace of the materials used, but the absence of anything else is almost absolute.
Jordi Alcaraz breaks materials in various ways, making his work less evocative and more striking. Layers of materials are superimposed like protective shields, gradually constructing increasingly complex layers of meaning.
His artistic career began in the fields of sculpture and printmaking. He regularly exhibits in galleries in Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Trieste, and Zurich. He has also showcased his work in institutions such as Sala Tecla, Fundación Telefónica, the Los Angeles Art Museum, Musée Réattu in Arles, and the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels.
His works are part of collections such as the Biedermann Museum in Donaueschingen, Germany; the Fontanal Cisneros Collection in Miami; the Williams Collection in Massachusetts; Olor Visual in Barcelona; and the Banco Sabadell Foundation.
Jordi Alcaraz
Dues lletres
2024
Book, resin and methacrylate
46 x 59 cm
Jordi Alcaraz. Pentagramas. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ, Madrid. 2024
Jordi Alcaraz
Dibuix d’arquitecte (III)
2024
Drypoint on methacrylate, iron, collage and wire
65,5 x 55 cm
Jordi Alcaraz
El music
2024
Charcoal on paper, collage, iron and methacrylate
102 x 79 cm
Jordi Alcaraz – Portfolio 2026