Chiharu Shiota

I was recently in Pittsburgh, PA and saw the installation exhibit at the Mattress Factory, a gallery.
The work by Chiharu Shiota encased existing furniture left in an abandoned building within a web of yarn.  www.mattress.org/

What was most effective to me was the sense that time obscures the things we leave behind.  Played out to its conclusion, these webs might eventually be opaque.  Chiraru Shiota has given us the half-way point.

http://www.chiharu-shiota.com/en/







Installations enable artist to form whole concepts that present work in a non-gallery atmosphere (even when in a gallery).
Here is one of my installations from 2014: