Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese artist in the field of performing arts and installation, and has lived and worked in Germany since 1996. She completed her artistic studies at universities in Australia and Germany.

Her works have been done using yarn, weaving and weaving. "Shiota" influences the past to complete the future, the past is the content that forces her to build a form of the future. She looks endlessly at common human themes such as home, love, fear, nostalgia, and hatred, and confines them to the gallery environment to give a magical representation of abstract concepts. "Shiota" can not be summed up in one work that even the works themselves are interdependent with invisible thread while being independent. The dependence that this connection of her works makes him unique. It is as if she is completing a work for a lifetime. This connection has led her to experience contemporary art, It is as if he is completing a work for a lifetime. This connection has led him to experiment in contemporary art, from painting to shocking performances to massive arrangements with woven threads that always attract audiences to completely different works with her poetry.

Key in hand / 2015 / Fifty-sixth Venice Biennale

Poets who show the theatrical space of her works and audiences who, with any kind of literacy and skill, make an independent interpretation of her works in accordance with their understanding. The abstraction in her works is shaped by the content, works that are sometimes bitter and dark based on personal themes such as displacement, loss and past memories of the artist and sometimes a general theme such as homeland and nostalgia. She brings the audience into her spaces, regardless of any language, race or belief, to express her feelings through an unusual show. Spaces that sometimes remind us of presence and living without the presence of a person, and sometimes, by showing people in it, it is considered uninhabited. But what is always common to all her works is a sense in which she is suspended: the middle of life and death.

She uses a human concept in which we all have a common sense as a content and presents it in a not-so-complex way. She makes appropriate use of metaphors in objects to convey her content in a more meaningful way. Content that, according to McLuhan, is its medium. Content that, according to McLuhan, is its medium.

Prepared and arranged by: Narges Saheb Ekhtiari