The Piano at Detached

Lately I have been talking with friends and thinking about the installation of the piano that was part of Detached art space in Hobart at the beginning of this year. Thought that it deserved a photo. It was installed by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota and she set fire to a grand piano in a Hobart street as part of an art installation for MONA FOMA 2011.
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Chiharu Shiota spent 10 days spinning a vast cocoon of black thread around what remains of the piano. The work, 'In Silence', is one of four pieces that form the artist's first major Australian exhibition. The blackened carcass of the grand piano and accompanist's chair was trapped in a labyrinth of black wool. Shiota says the work is a meditation on sound and its absence.

The piece responds to an incident that occurred when Shiota was nine-years old. She woke in the night to sound of burning timber and ran to wake her parents. The family then watched helplessly as a neighbour's home burned. Later, Shiota saw the remains of a piano charred and silent in the ashes.

Some wonderful things to come at Detached so keep an eye on it.