The Object & The Unconscious

Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiotas work confronts the viewer with their own unconscious, similar to Lousie Bourgeois the artists uses domestic objects to create a 'relational' pictorial language through performance and installation art. The aim of my project is to explore symbolism and the meaning behind everyday objects, how materiality and physicality effect the interpretation of those objects and how these reflect a the unconscious  little of the human condition. 


The scale and the delicate handling of material, creates an interesting juxtaposition providing protection or an entrapment of metaphorical webs. 
Shiota’s practice stands as a main influence in my use of thread, representing the material with an emotional charge. The object stands between reality and the unconscious. Shiota’s work is a main influence to my translation of objects and their properties, threads act as a narrative of memory.

                                                                                                                             Lise Bijorne Linnert

Linnerts tiny and intricate textiles stand alone as the action itself, by stitching around the wires of the fences it is the essence of the project, a broken part of the fence is highlighted with the red of her woven thread. Linnert proposes the stitches are wound with care but could also be viewed as an intrusive performance crossing the boundaries of consent. exploring the action between the unseen and the unconscious these are Subtle yet political, their are underlying connotations that curiously peer through her work, quiet yet intrusive, her work establishes the boundaries of herself and the audience, mine and yours, open or closed.