Having weaved boats, her body, and this time a cast of her feet into her works, Marina Abramovic’s pupil Chiharu Shiota (b.1972) represented Japan at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Known for her gallery-sized installations, she constructs webs that spread from the top corners of artistic spaces, linking discarded, once-loved or personally resonant items with different coloured threads: usually red or black.
Her most recent work—including Me Somewhere Else, which is shown from today until 19 January 2019 at Blain Southern Gallery in London—has taken on the scarlet palette of a network of arteries, or perhaps threads of blood suspended in water. Shota’s intention is to represent her own connection to the earth as part of a vast, living organism.
