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Chiharu Shiota

Each Other, 2016
Oil pastel and thread on paper
32 x 24 cm ( 12 5/8 x 9 1/2 inch )

EXHIBITIONS AT ROTWAND

Chiharu Shiota - A Long Day, 2009
In Transit, 2010

CV_Shiota_15mitLogo.pdf

Born 1972 in Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Berlin

In her work, Shiota often makes use of tangled yarn, cracked windows, worn out shoes, and burned pianos. While on the one hand, these objects fill us with a disquiting sense of repulsion, the also seem to call up memories from the past that have accumulated with the passage of time. Shiota's work simultaneously imparts a fear of death and the vigor of life through ordinary objects that we are completely accustomed to seeing - it is this ambiguity that makes the works so enthralling.

(Excerpts from the Catalogue "Chiharu Shiota, Breath of Spirit", 2008, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, P. 5)