Chiharu Shiota's 'After The Dream' at Carré Sainte-Anne

Chiharu Shiota transformed the deconsecrated Carré Sainte-Anne in Montpellier with over fifty thousand meters of black wool thread, colonizing walls, pillars, and vaults to create a chimerical, post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Within this cocoon, four long white dresses float in alignment, suggesting a spectral procession. External light filters through stained glass windows and the thread web, shifting between gray and white tones. Viewers must navigate a path carved through the woolen network, physically separated from the installation's core. Shiota, who explores body, unconsciousness, memory, and sleep, materialized a dark vision blending anxiety, reverie, and poetry, drawing from her imagination and the site's history and architecture. The exhibition ran from October 4 to November 17, 2013. Concurrently, Shiota showed at Galerie Daniel Templon in Brussels from September 13 to October 30, 2013.