Artwork: Chiharu Shiota, *Tell Me A Story*, Kosovo, 2022

Chiharu Shiota’s recent installation at Manifesta 14 Biennial in Prishtina, Kosovo, is about storytelling and how interwoven stories and memories are in people’s lives. Featuring her distinctive red thread, the installation Tell Me A Story is a collaborative project inviting the people of Kosovo to write a story inspired by subjects such as birth, childhood, their family, nation, country, religion, love and death, and in a language of their choice from Albanian, English, Turkish, Serbian, Roma or Egyptian.

The installation takes its inspiration from the main theme of Manifesta 14—with its rather convoluted exhibition title, “it matters what worlds world worlds. how to tell stories otherwise”—which is about generating new practices and ways of collective storytelling.