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Chiharu Shiota

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Chiharu Shiota

(Born 1972, works in Berlin)

Relationality, 2018

Powder coated steel

3 x 3 x 1,8 cm

Chiharu Shiota creates three-dimensional artworks composed of intricate weavings of thread. As a young artist, she wanted to be able to enter her artworks, and she has developed a process that can be described as drawing in the air. With Relationality, she creates her first outdoor artwork where the characteristic yarn has been replaced with metal thread. The sculpture returns to a motif that she drew with black marker for many years, a house linked to a figure. In a previous installation, she similarly connected her own body to the ceiling of a building. In the Hay Barn at Wanås, she displays another artwork also based on the form of a house. Chiharu Shiota, who was born in Japan and has lived in Berlin for many years, revisits the sense of belonging everywhere—and nowhere.