Chiharu Shiota

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Chiharu Shiota
Born
塩田 千春 (Shiota Chiharu)
NationalityJapanese
Known forinstallation art, performance art
Websitechiharu-shiota.com

Chiharu Shiota (塩田 千春, Shiota Chiharu) is a Japanese performance and installation artist.

Early life, education and teaching[]

Shiota was born in Osaka. Her parents ran a business manufacturing fish boxes, producing a thousand wooden boxes a day.[1] She wanted to be an artist since she was twelve. Although her parents didn't directly support her desire to be an artist and worried about her, she was able to formally study art.[1]​ She studied at the Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto from 1992 to 1996, was an exchange student at Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, 1993-93 and a student at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, from 1997 to 1999 and at Universität der Künste, Berlin, from 1999 to 2003.[2] In an interview with Andrea Jahn, Shiota mentions that her first installation work was Becoming Painting, which was created with red enamel paint she used on her body. "Taking part in Becoming Painting was indeed an act of liberation. It was my first physical piece of work, using my whole body, rather than a skillful artwork."[1]​ In Berlin, she was a student of Rebecca Horn and in Braunschweig studied with Marina Abramović.[3]

Work[]

Shiota's oeuvre links various aspects of art performances, sculpture and installation practices. Mostly renowned for her vast, room-spanning webs of threads or hoses, she links abstract networks with concrete everyday objects such as keys, window frames, dresses, shoes, boats and suitcases.[4] Her early works are performance pieces, many of which were recorded in photographs and video, in which, for example, she uses mud, while later large-scale installations integrate personal objects (e.g. shoes) given to her by other people. Materials and colors carry particular meanings in her artistic work, in which menstruation blood is used as artistic material and red threads come to signify human relationships.[5] Shiota acknowledges her teacher Marina Abramovic's influence during her formative years and refers to Christian Boltanski's work as a source of inspiration for some of her later installation works.[6] Places matter to her work and she is strongly interested in psychogeography, the relationship between psyche and space. Shiota's thread installation works developed from the artist's experience of moving between places out of which evolved the desire to cover her possessions in yarn thereby marking a personal territory.[6]​ In an interview she states that she could not have made her large-scale installations, A Room of Memory (2009) and Memory of Skin (2005), without living in Berlin.[7] She has also created work in collaboration with choreographers and composers such as Toshio Hosokawa, Sasha Waltz[8] and Stefan Goldmann.[9]

Exhibitions[]

  • 2012 :
    • Infinity, galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France[10]
  • 2015 :
    • The Key in the Hand, Japanese Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia[11]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles. Bijutsu Press. 2019. p. 230. ISBN 978-4-568-10519-3.
  2. ^ Chiharu Shiota. Hatje Cantz. 2011. p. 210. ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0.
  3. ^ Dal Zotto, Sara. "Chiharu Shiota: An Interview". NASTY Magazine. Nasty Magazine.
  4. ^ "Chiharu Shiota". Mattress Factory.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Interview with Chiharu Shiota by Rosalie Pfleger, in Chiharu Shiota. Art Jameel. 2018. pp. unpaginated. ISBN 978-9948-38-251-5.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b A Conversation between Chiharu Shiota and James Putnam, in Chiharu Shiota. Hatje Cantz. 2011. pp. 215–221, 215. ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0.
  7. ^ A Conversation between Shiota Chiharu and James Putnam, in Shiota Chiharu. Hatje Catz. 2011. pp. 215–221, 217. ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0.
  8. ^ Die Welt: Wind, der in den Kiefern tanzt. May 5th, 2011
  9. ^ "Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany: Alif". Archived from the original on 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  10. ^ D. Poiret, Chiharu Shiota tisse sa toile à Paris, Libération Next 31/1/2012
  11. ^ 56th Biennale die Venezia, Japanese Pavilion program

Further reading[]

  • 2003 :
    • Chiharu Shiota / a-i-r- laboratory / December 2003, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, ISBN 83-85142-87-8
    • The Way Into Silence, solo show, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Hrsg: Andrea Jahn, Verlag Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 3-88423-211-8
  • 2005 : Chiharu Shiota: Raum / Room, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Germany, ISBN 3-934833-17-9
  • 2007 : From In Silence – Chiharu Shiota, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kanagawa, Japan
  • 2008 :
    • Chiharu Shiota, Zustand des Seins / État d´Être / State of Being, CentrePasquArt, Biel / Bienne, Suisse, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, ISBN 978-3-940748-44-7
    • Chiharu Shiota - Breath of the Spirit, National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
  • 2009 :
    • Chiharu Shiota, Unconscious Anxiety, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, France
    • Chiharu Shiota - When Mind Takes Shape, lecture book of Kobe Design
  • 2011 Chiharu Shiota, edited by Caroline Stummel, Gervasuti Foundation, Venice in cooperation with Haunch of Venison, Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-3156-0

University, Shinjuku Shobo, Japan, ISBN 978-4-88008-395-7

  • 2014 Chiharu Shiota, Las líneas de la mano, Casa Asia, España, ISBN 978-1-940291-36-9
  • 2019 Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Japan, ISBN 978-4-568-10519-3
  • : Chiharu Shiota. I hope, in: Kunstforum International, Nr. 273, Cologne 2021, p. 258-260.
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