The MAO Museum of Oriental Art in Turin presents the exhibition Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles, curated by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum, who conceived the original project, and Davide Quadrio, director of the MAO, with curatorial assistance from Anna Musini and Francesca Filisetti.

The major monographic exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist arrives at the MAO for the first time in Italy - and for the very first time in an Asian art museum - after being hosted in prestigious international institutions, including the Grand Palais in Paris, the Busan Museum of Art, the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai, the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, and the Shenzhen Art Museum.

It is a broad and articulated project, of great expressive power, that traces Shiota's entire production through drawings, photographs, sculptures, and some of her most famous environmental and monumental installations. Often inspired by personal experiences, Chiharu Shiota's works explore the intangible - memories, emotions, images, and dreamlike visions, offering spaces of silence and contemplation - and raise questions about universal and existential concepts such as identity, the relationship with others, life, and death; transcending temporal and spatial boundaries, her works involve the most intimate and vulnerable part of the human being.

Her most famous installations, composed of intertwined red or black threads creating imposing structures, envelop the spaces in which they are placed, transforming their volumes and guiding the viewer in an immersive experience where fascination alternates with unease, movement with stillness.