Through her intricate needlework installations, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota simultaneously addresses themes of memory and nostalgia, light and color, beauty and loss, elements that intertwine to give the installation both the location and the space within which it hangs. The object has a powerful, dark, dreamlike quality.
Chiharu Shiota was born in Osaka in 1972 and currently lives in Berlin. She studied under the famous performance artist Marina Abramovix in the 1990s. Shiota studied painting at the beginning, but soon became known for her large-scale needlework installations. Walking into Shiota Chiharus installations is like walking into another world. It is rumored that her works have a ghostly feel. The beauty of ghosts.
Boats, keys, chairs and pianos: In Chiharu Shiota, everyday household objects are suspended from thousands of fragile ropes, which together form a fragile installation that creates a new kind of The poetry of space makes ordinary objects exude novel meanings. In addition, her various works have been exhibited around the world. The exhibition "Shiota Chiharu: Shaking Soul (Shiota Chiharu Exhibition: Soul がふるえる)" opened at the Roppongi Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan at the end of June 2019 can be said to be This is the largest exhibition in Chiharu Shiotas art career. This exhibition was originally scheduled to tour the world in three years, but some exhibition plans were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic!
