Shiota's installations produce their own spaces, where hundreds of invisible threads that bond us to things can be seen. In these domestic scenarios she proposes, threads become bridges between a bride's dress and the absent subject, a piano, suitcases and a mirror. In her work, these threads are veins with tears, fear for abyss, life and death; threads that are plots of particular and universal stories, interweaving like the inverted roots of a tree, just like a rhizome through multiple branches that hold up the relationship between she and the world. The threads that transport the information and are essential in all the communication, but at the same time make up networks or wire fences that hold up the way to strangers in kinds of spaces where everyday life is in conflict with desired production.

Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines

Arts & Photography

Shiota, Chiharu

Individual Artists

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Black and red woolen yarns are the trademark staple in the art of Chiharu Shiota (b. Osaka, 1972; lives and works in Berlin). She arranges one or several objects—beds, garments, shoes, scissors—in a room and then envelops them in an expansive web of strings. With her installations, the artist, who studied with Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn, explores the great themes of human life: belonging, fear, birth and death. For 2015, she was selected to design the Japanese pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. The artist will realize a new installation titled The Key in the Hand made of two boats, red strings, and countless used keys she solicited from her viewers in a worldwide open call. The project is designed to intertwine her own memories with the recollections of the keys’ former owners to reflect on the meaning of life. This book presents the Biennale piece as well as selected works Chiharu Shiota created from 1998 up to now. With an essay by Hitoshi Nakano.

Chiharu Shiota: The Key in the Hand (Esposizione Internazionale D'arte)

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Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines

Chiharu Shiota: The Key in the Hand (Esposizione Internazionale D'arte)