'Between the lines' by Chiharu Shiota
Two years ago at the Biennale in Venice I was very impressed by the work of the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota . Her work 'The key in the hand' was on show in the Japanese pavilion. It was ' The Sensation of the Biennale'. Two old boats were floating in a sea of used keys and the whole space looked like a grotto made from red woolen thread on which keys hang. The keys came from houses all over the world. There were thousends of them. For Shiota keys means a connection to each other and boats cary people and time. Poetic and political it was. I thought about refugees leaving their homes and crossing the sea in old boats to get off in a safer place to live. About the houses I have lived in in my life. I remember staying there a long time. It was a work of art which came into my mind and probably stays there always when I think of visit to the Biennale in 2015. Until October 25, Shiota has an exhibition in the Noordbrabants muse...