Chiharu Shiota’s life experiences and the string she used in her art works

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Conclusion Chiharu Shiota’s background was painting, She started to think about her existence since she learned with Marina Abramovich and started working with yarn. For her, painting was just color and there’s no meaning. She wanted to make drawings in the air and started

using string and making lines. String, for her, is like drawing in the air, also, the relationship from human to human and is like a mirror of her feelings. From her works we can see, she used red line to express sad and upset while using black lines when facing to fear and white strings represent purity and death. Her artistic world as if is surrounded with a silk thread space with gentle and tension, is full of emotional clues.


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