“Second Skin” (Hoffmann Collection) 2001
“Seven
Dresses” (Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken / Germany) 2015
In these
installations, Shiota has used a metal cube frame to encase her pieces. “Second
Skin” consists of a woman’s dress suspended to the right of the cube by black
string. The string has been wound together to fill the frame but the artist has
purposely concentrated the amount of string clustered around the dress. This
draws attention to this area and makes the dress appear to be giving out a
physical energy. As the colour of the “energy” is black, this could symbolise
negativity, sadness, the absence of emotion, or death. I believe that the use
of the empty dress shows the death of someone. The dress is positions as if
lying face down, with both arms hanging down. This could show some sort of
haunting or maybe the cause of death. To me it looks as if the dress is
drowning in or is being suffocated by the metaphorical energy. I believe this
shows the presence of a spirit or this piece of work is a reminder of the
passing of someone. I think Shiota has used the frame to encase the dress and
string to emphasis the suffocation and claustrophobia of the person that once
wore the dress.
I hope to
use Chiota’s work to inspire the overall mood of my work. I like the way she
portrays energy and feeling physically using string. It physically shows how
you feel when you are lonely or missing someone; it feels as if your memories
and thoughts have a dark, unclear cloud over them.
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