About her:
Her favourite colour and why she uses it:
Her work she's famous for:
Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese performance and instillation artist. She's been working in Berlin, Germany since 1996. Her work links to different various aspects of art performance's, practices, She is mostly renowned for her vast, room- spanning webs of threads and hoses, she likes to link abstract with her everyday objects, such as keys, phone, windows, shoes and suitcases. In her early work she worked as photographer and filmmaker in which she shows large examples of installation. She likes to use different colours as she believes it carries a particular meaning in her artistic work, she also uses menstruation blood which is getting used as a artistic material and she likes to use red threads as it comes to signify every human relationship.
Chiharu Shiota favourite to use when she's painting is red, the reason why red is her favourite colour to use is because it reminds her of violent and it symbolises the colour of human blood.
How she got into art:
Chiharu Shiota started out as a university student in Seika University, she was a student of painting faculty. She had a exchange and decided to go to a university in Canberra. It was in that time she made her first performance called "becoming painting"
Chiharu Shiota is famous for her notable works. Chiharu Shiota is also known for her performance instillation in which she weaves human size webs from black thread, turning entire galleries into labyrinth environments and often enclosing personal objects or her self.
What artist inspired Chiharu Shiota:
After passing university in Canberra, she decided to move to Berlin, Germany 2 years later (1996) and she began to study art with her Marina Abramovic being her tutor. Abramovic Became Shiota's inspiration and was perceived as a artist, not a teacher, who greatly influenced her and brought her to starting thread works.
