Audaciously massive and intriguingly mysterious, Japanese-born Chiharu Shiota’s art installations are scenes of entangled webs comprising sophisticated knots, loops and loose ends. Imagine walking down a labyrinthine of memory lanes dangling with colourful correspondence trapped within confusing black threads, or navigating the enveloping darkness in a maze of tunnels surrounded by rusted or paint-peeled doors wrapped with suffocating twine. Chiharu’s art pieces are atmospheric, perplexing and open to each spectator’s liberal interpretation.
The
Berlin-based artist leaves her signature around the world by entrapping
nostalgically inspiring objects with colossal web of strings. Innumerable keys
in gold and bronze were held captive by a vast red tangled net, swayed
ominously above a discarded old boat. Pile of vintage suitcases cascaded down
from a ceiling of meshed red cords; white classic dresses from the Elizabethan
era hid obscurely behind a gigantic web of complex intricacy. Ancient piano,
footwear of varied sizes and styles, white hospital beds, wooden furniture and
other tangible items revolve around the constant theme of black or red yarn.
Chiharu’s “The
Home Within” is a large-scale architectural structure of complicated lines
woven and interlaced into a fiery house in red. The dimensionally challenging
work will tour around the Meat Market and Melbourne Town Hall in the coming
weeks. A separate solo exhibition of Chiharu Shiota is now showcased at the
Melbourne Anna Schwartz Gallery.
“The Home Within”
Exhibition: -
Meat Market 10 - 20 Oct 2016 10 am- 6pm
Melbourne Town
Hall 23 Oct 2016 10 am – 6pm
Solo
Exhibition: -
Anna Schwartz
Gallery, 185 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
6 Oct – 5 Nov
2016
Website: http://www.annaschwartzgallery.com
Chiharu
Shiota’s Webite: http://www.chiharu-shiota.com/en/
