Chiharu shiota memory under the skin...
Chiharu Shiota - In the beginning was...
Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) works with her body as a space for intervention, making performances that deal with the link to the land, the past and memory
Heir to Ana Mendieta and a whole generation of feminist artists of the early 1970s, most of her installations are collections of used belongings, full of memories, which serve as expressions of human acts.
Thus, complex networks of threads weave around and between them.
Shiota studied painting at the Kyoto Seika University, in Japan.
Chiharu shiota wikipedia
Her stay at the Canberra School of Art in 1994 is particularly fascinating to understand her work. This was when she began to replace traditional pictorial technique with her thread installations, which represent a sort of drawing in the air, as the artist herself has described it on occasion.
She moved to Germany in 1996 and continued her studies in Braunschweig and later in Berlin, where she lives and works to this day.
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