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  • Hundreds of shoes with notes and red strings attached that all lead to a central locus
  • Shoes with red strings tied on that ascend upward
  • Hundreds of shoes with notes and red strings attached that all lead to a central focus
  • Red shoe with note
  • Installation of Over the Continents
  • Installation of Over the Continents
  • Installation of Over the Continents
  • Shoe and note in Japanese
  • Chiharu Shiota
  • Chiharu Shiota
  • Hundreds of shoes with notes and red strings attached that all lead to a central locus above
  • Shoes with notes and red strings
Hundreds of shoes with notes and red strings attached that all lead to a central locus

Installation view of Over the Continents (2008–2013) at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 2014; photo by John Tsantes

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Shoes with red strings tied on that ascend upward

Installation view of Over the Continents (2008–2013) at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 2014; photo by John Tsantes

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Hundreds of shoes with notes and red strings attached that all lead to a central focus

Installation view of Over the Continents (2008–2013) at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 2014; photo by John Tsantes

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Red shoe with note

Installation of Over the Continents (2008–2013) in progress at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 2014; photo by Cory Grace

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Installation of Over the Continents

Installation of Over the Continents (2008–2013) in progress at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 2014; photo by Cory Grace

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Installation of Over the Continents

Installation of Over the Continents (2008–2013) in progress at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 2014; photo by Cory Grace

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Installation of Over the Continents

Installation view of Over the Continents (2008–2013) at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 2014; photo by John Tsantes

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Shoe and note in Japanese

Shoe and note from Over the Continents (2008–2013) at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 2014; photo by John Tsantes

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Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota; photo by Sunhi Mang

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Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota; photo by Sunhi Mang

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Hundreds of shoes with notes and red strings attached that all lead to a central locus above

Installation view of Dialogue From DNA at Manggha, Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland by Chiharu Shiota; 2004; photo by Sunhi Mang

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Shoes with notes and red strings

Installation view of Over the Continents at The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, by Chiharu Shiota; 2008; photo by Sunhi Mang; courtesy of Kenji Taki Gallery

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