After Chiharu Shiota’s 2022 exhibition at Cisternerne, Copenhagen. This is an independent spatial interpretation, not a measured reconstruction or an official museum experience.
The venue describes three consecutive spaces connected by winding walkways above water, yarn structures, rotating dresses and changing reflections. The artist’s photographs show low vaulted masonry, closely spaced piers, pale web enclosures containing white garments, and separately suspended white and red textiles with reflections beneath them.
No complete dimensioned floor plan or complete visitor-route survey was established from these references. The modeled 20 × 48 metre hall, four-metre structural bays, approximately 3.95-metre vault crowns and 1.25-metre-wide deck are estimates. Textile counts, placements and the zigzag route are composed to evoke the documented sequence while keeping a continuous dry return route. They must not be read as the original exhibition’s exact plan.
Visitors remain on the deck and can approach the yarn enclosures, pass the rotating dresses and reach the red textile chamber. Water and artworks are not enterable. Viewpoint shortcuts place the visitor on the same walkable route. The physical venue’s access rules are not inferred from this simulation.
All masonry, threads, garments, water and lighting are generated in code. No third-party photographs, film frames, textures or audio are redistributed. Water reflects the actual rendered geometry; its ripples and the textile rotations can be paused. Cloth motion is an approximation, not a recording or a fabric-physics reconstruction. Additional physical mirror constructions and the venue’s acoustic installation are not reconstructed.