Chiharu Shiota

Museum Haus Konstruktiv’s solo exhibition on Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972 in Osaka, lives and works in Berlin) is the first to be dedicated to this internationally acclaimed Japanese artist in German-speaking Switzerland. Alongside recent works on paper and sculptural objects, the room-filling thread installation Eye to Eye, specially created for this Zurich exhibition, will be on display.

The tying and interweaving of mostly red, black or white threads has occupied Shiota since the beginning of her artistic oeuvre. Driven and fascinated by existential themes such as fear, death and love, along with their subjective narratives, Shiota describes the interwoven threads as symbols of complex interpersonal connections. Thus, her net-like structures, which she herself also sees as three-dimensional drawings, become metaphors for all kinds of relationships. It is not uncommon for her to incorporate objects associated with individual conceptual spaces or personal stories, bringing fundamental themes of human existence into focus.