Artist Chiharu Shiota Uses String to Draw in Space | Louisiana Channel
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2022
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“Strings break, get tangled or tied together just like people cut relationships.” Join Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota on her journey to find meaning in life and death through her art. “In the moment people enter my works, I want them to understand what it is to live and what it is to die.”
Chiharu Shiota, who’s been in Berlin for more than 25 years, grew up in Osaka, Japan. Observing her parents’ business, a factory that made wooden boxes, throughout her childhood, Shiota knew from a young age that she wanted something else in life: “I found this kind of life unsatisfying. I wanted to work with my mind and to be creative.” By the age of 12, she knew that she wanted to become a painter. She began studying at art schools in Japan, Australia, and Germany. But soon, she learned that painting wasn’t for her: ”Painting with oil paint and a brush on canvas felt very limited,” Shiota remembers: “The more I painted, the more I felt that I was copying other artists. I didn’t feel any connection at all. I suffered from making art just for the sake of art.”
Strings, which now have become a signature for the artist, were her escape from the canvas: “I started to make three-dimensional pictures with strings.” Feeling more connected to the string as a material than paint, Shiota started doing performance and installation art. “I create in space,” she says about her method and continues: “When you weave string, it’s a communication with the space. It’s like painting a picture in the air.” Often the strings are intertwined but also connected to human objects such as shoes, suitcases, and old photographs that she finds at flea markets and antique shops. Dresses also appear frequently in her work, latest at Cisternerne in Copenhagen: “My works’ theme is often about absence in existence,” Shiota explains. “I use dresses in my work because they are empty bodies,” she says and clarifies: “The theme of existence is very important to me. That’s why I often use dresses with no bodies in them.”
“What world will there be after your body has disappeared? When I die, and my thoughts and ideas are gone… I wonder what will become of me. I create my works searching for these answers.”
Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972) is a Japanese performance and instaxllation artist. Shiota was born in Osaka and studied at Kyoto Seika University from 1992 to 1996. She also studied at Canberra School of Art, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, and Universität der Künste, Berlin. In Braunschweig, she was a student of performance artist Marina Abramovic. Shiota is known for her site-specific installations in which is weaves enormous webs from black, red, and white yarn. In 2015 she represented Japan in the 56th Venice Biennale with the piece “The Key in the Hand”. Chiharu Shiota has exhibited worldwide, including at Taipei Fine Art Museum, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the SCAD Museum of Art, Blain Southern Berlin, and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Chiharu Shiota was interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen in her studio in Berlin, Germany, in March 2022 in connection to her exhibition “Multiple Realities” at Cisternerne in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Camera: Mark Nickels and Rasmus Quistgaard
Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2022
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Been a fan of her work for a while, she is absolutely brilliant
I can’t believe I actually got to see her exhibition. The soul trembles in person. It was such an unreal experience. I’ve never come across any art that makes me feel so much
Louisiana never disappoints with their portraits. Thank you for a beautiful, calm, rich film.
Thank you so much!
I adore the soul trembles. It means a lot. When I came inside, I was feeling something special. It was cool and the best place i've ever seen
i love her insight into clothes as bodies, really resonates with me today. such an intimate, human item. it carries the energy of its owner passively. it makes sense.
they can be haunting like a ghost
Absolutely brilliant installations. This film was amazing.
Thanks so much!
What a great artist!! A pleasure to see that there are still such great artists as this lady today.
many blessings to her!
I did that when I was a little kid. I made a spider web across an entire room.
how does she keep them taut do u think?
"I think my works are philosophies of the moment. In the moment people enter my works - I want them to understand what it is to live and what it is to die."
That's also what a spider would say :-o
Loved this story. Such an inspiration.
Just got back from her exhibition. It gave this eerie feeling and certainly different from every other exhibitions I've ever been to. The juxtaposition between life and death is always underlined and bolded at many parts, along with the sense of yearning for the time lost.
where does Shiota juxtapose? Im researching her for my art assignment so pls help explain!
amazing
Sublime 🙌🏻
🌺🌺🌺🌺Love it🌺🌺🌺🌺
very cool
Could you please tell me the name of the music which is used in the video?
What kind of string does she use?
Who’s going to clean that up?
theres literally like 5000 of these artists in japan making the exact same thing.
do you have someone to point to would love to explore this type of art more
@@Hananh Google Japanese hack art
@@figgettit I googled it and couldnt find anything but a manga called Hack. Could you give more insight abt this art style?
But there is only one of Shiota. Her work is breathtaking.
@@Creativeassemblages it's trash
This looks like the artist Gego sculptures. Either she is copying her or she just ignores that a german woman already did this but with metal in the 70's....pathetic
If it "looks" like something doesn't mean that it's the same thing. I don't know where do you see similarities in their work, except for technique and overall vague impressions. If they look a little alike it doesn't mean that they convey the same ideas and emotions. They are both excellent in their own way. Pathetic is to blindly blame artists.