CHIHARU SHIOTA - Labyrinth of Memory

Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese performance and installation artist haunted by the traces that the human body leaves behind. She is best known for collecting discarded objects and notes to create room-filling, monumental yet delicate, poetic environments. Central to the artist’s work are the themes of remembrance and oblivion, dreaming and sleeping, traces of the past and childhood, and dealing with anxieties. Shiota finds diverse visual expressions for these subject matters, the most celebrated being impenetrable installations made of black thread which often enclose various household and everyday, personal objects: a burnt-out piano, a wedding dress, a lady’s mackintosh, sometimes even the sleeping artist herself.
Shiota studied at Kyoto Seika University, Canberra School of Art, and Berlin University of the Arts with Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn. Her work has been presented at the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, 2013), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (United Kingdom, 2012), National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2007), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin, 2006), and MoMA PS1 (New York City, 2003), as well as the Biennials in Venice, Fukuoka, and Yokohama. Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1972, Shiota currently lives and works in Berlin.
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[@sahejaziz]

I am awestruck. What a brain! Especially fell in love with some pictures that almost stopped my breath. Learnt only later that these are not paintings but real life installations. 😻

[@trw5653]

Thank-you. Both music and art are captivatingly beautiful to me.

[@MissGoodintentions]

Mystical and entertaining, what a unique presentation for this interesting art... love it!

[@Malacigla]

That's what art is made for: bringing us out of our own and sometimes narrowed point of view. Many metaphors possible here. Besides a mesmerizing physical experience, this brings me out of the rational world for some moment and this surely is a good balance nowadays. And there is that meditative quality, that makes your video so special +ForLOVEoftheARTS Thank you. Nena G.

[@DarkmoonRising69]

always such a delight

[@ForLOVEoftheARTS]

+Laurence James Thank you again!:))

[@ConsueloLarralde]

Un artista muy interesante. Excelente video.

[@ForLOVEoftheARTS]

+Consuelo Larralde Muchas gracias!:) y muchos saludos!:)

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