Shiota's installations produce their own spaces, where hundreds of invisible threads that bond us to things can be seen. In these domestic scenarios she proposes, threads become bridges between a bride's dress and the absent subject, a piano, suitcases and a mirror. In her work, these threads are ve[...]

The Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972) creates capacious installations that surround the viewer like a mental space. The artist works with her own body and with found objects such as clothing, shoes and dolls; the most striking characteristic of her work is the web of wool threa[...]