Infinity Installation

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota has used a web of black threads to transform a room into a dreamy dark forest suspended in time and space.

Shiota has realized the Infinity installation at Paris' Galerie Daniel Templon. Wool threads are interweaved to create an intricate net. Within this entangled space, white lamps intermittently emit light, as if pulsing and breathing with life.

The association with a spider's web is immediate, though the feeling evoked is one of protection rather than entrapment. Mysteriously silent, Shiota's work is always infused with invisible grace. The absence of objects - or their suspension within the web - suggests their practical uselessness and the result is delicately melancholic.

Shiota's use of natural materials and symbolic placement of objects is reminiscent of Louise Bourgeois's art. Shiota speaks a feminine language, in which subtle sensuality and ethereal gracefulness harmoniously merge.

Infinity can be seen until 18 February at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.

Images courtsey Daniel Templon Gallery. Photo: B.Huet/Tutti (for Infinity); Sunhi Mang (for all the other images).

Galerie Daniel Templon
30 rue de Beaubourg
75003 Paris