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Chiharu Shiota: ’Memory of Skin’ (2001-2005)

— Memory of Skin (2001). Five enormous dresses, permanently mud-stained, were persistently washed by streaming water from shower heads in a vain attempt to get them clean. Here, most evocatively Chiharu Shiota explores how existence, although transient, is forever retained in memory, permanent indelible marks never to be gotten rid of.