CHIHARU SHIOTA
HAMMER PROJECTS
HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES, US26 MARCH – 27 AUGUST 2023
Shiota will be the inaugural artist featured in the Hammer’s redesigned lobby and will envelop the area with a unique and visceral installation.
Chiharu Shiota is a Berlin-based artist whose installations, sculpture, and performance art invoke psychogeographic spaces of memory, emotions, and the cyclical nature of life and death. Using red, black, or white yarn as a base material, Shiota often creates meticulously webbed environments that span the length of entire galleries and mimic organic forms such as cobwebs, veins, and fractals. Shiota also includes a range of found objects in her work such as wooden chairs, abandoned shoes, rusted keys, and used dresses as a strategy to implicate the viewer in the artist's personal narratives that are often universal experiences.
Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota is organized by Erin Christovale, curator.
© Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota, Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, March 26,2023 – August 27, 2023. Photo: Jeff Mclane
