Artist 2 - Chiharu Shiota

                      

Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese installation artist born in 1972 in Osaka. She now resides and works in Berlin since 1996. Shiota studied at the Seika University in Kyoto and at numerous schools in Germany. Shiota’s installations and art performances consist of everyday objects such as beds, windows, shoes, chairs and dresses. To these she adds intricate, web-like threads of black and sometimes red. I believe she uses these specific objects to explore the relationships between past and present, living and dying, and the memories of people implanted into objects.

I specifically like the way she entwines black thread to create an unclear “static” image. She uses the concentration of thread in specific areas to appear as darker tones making the object enclosed by the thread look consumed by darkness and negativity. In my opinion the presence of the thread around objects could symbolises the presence of someone that was once their but has deceased or is no longer there.