Chiharu Shiota

This week, I found an artist who I think is very unique. Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese artist from Berlin who creates complex large scale art installations. In her artwork, she uses things we may use or see from a day to day basis, and creates something with it, or adds her own twists to it. In many of her artwork, she uses black thread to zig-zag around her pieces or art, creating sort of a gothic look.

This piece is called Haunch of Venison. Notice how much thread she uses within her art scene. Shiota explained how one day, she felt that she had woken up with her whole room tangled with black thread. From that day, she used this idea into many of her artworks, just like this one.

This piece is called Lebensspuren, which means traces of life. She asked many people to donate shoes, which were then tied to red string, and out onto an apartment building.

Google Images.
http://www.chiharu-shiota.com/