As the world says goodbye to the Tokyo Olympics, 21c highlights a Japanese artist in the #21cCollection. Chiharu Shiota’s State of Being (Dress), is a haunting sculpture filled with tensions alluding to personal and collective memories of childhood, anxiety, dreams, oblivion, and death. The artist, who works in both installation and performance, is best known for filling rooms with her large-scale installations that enclose everyday personal objects within a complex web of threads; in turn, these threads memorialize, protect, and confine the objects. In State of Being (Dress), the plastered children’s dresses float as if the young bodies that once wore them were still there, filling the space with their histories and breath. They remain haunting traces of anonymous childhoods and pay homage to the untold stories of the people who may have worn these clothes, in life or in death: in Japan, white is the color of mourning. #tokyo2020 #21cartist  #21cMuseum  #21cOFF-Spring  #japan ...