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February 26, 2010 · 1:22 am

CHIHARU SHIOTA

One Place

Location: Haunch of Venison London West Galleries

Date: 19 February – 27 March ’10

Saw this in the Guardian Art+Design news today, and just had to find out more… Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota is The Guardians featured artist of the week (76) and is currently presenting her first UK solo exhibition in West London at Haunch of Venison, following her UK debut at the Hayward Gallery in 2009 in the group show ‘Walking in my Mind’.

The installation that caught my attention presents a space filled with an intricate web of black yarn, encompassing everyday objects. The installation is striking, it almost reminds me of Marcel Duchamps ‘Mile of String’ (1942) installation. However, it had a very different intention and didn’t seem to hold such the sinister sense this exhibition appears to have. Intriguing to say the least though. Below is a few extracts about the exhibition and artist from Haunch of Venisons website:

‘The exhibition will include a major installation made from over 400 found windows from East Berlin where the artist lives and works, collected over the years from deserted and dismantled buildings, construction sites, disused psychiatric hospitals and uninhabited apartments.’

‘Central to the artist’s work are the themes of remembrance and oblivion, dreaming and sleeping, traces of the past and her childhood, and the dealing with anxieties.’

‘Several years ago Shiota started working on ‘room-filling’; impenetrable installations made of black thread which arose from the artist’s desire to ‘draw in the air’, and the start of the artist’s Trauma/Alltag and State of Being (Zustand des Seins) series. These disorienting cocoons of black yarn often enclose various household and everyday, personal objects’