SF/Arts Curator Insight

Osaka-born and Berlin-based Shiota’s inaugural solo museum show in the Bay Area explores memory, identity and absence. Stepping into the Yang Yamazaki Pavilion, visitors encounter immersive installations, sculpture, video and performance-related works. The artist is known for her monumental thread installations embedded with everyday objects; in this case, red yarn that stretches across the museum space is likened to “veins or neural pathways, suspending handwritten diary pages and fragments of lived experience.”