Tikharu Syota Biography

Her new installation is dedicated to the musical strings of the human soul. Chapel in the park of sculptures, Yorkshire. Photo: Jonty Wilde two thousand slices of white yarn, one and a half thousand old musical sheets and a metal frame in the shape of a skeleton of a piano. To braid the names of the chapel in the Yorkshire Park of Sculptures, turning it into a surreal and slightly frightening trap from the web, Tikharu required several days and ten assistants.

White yarn, ancient notes and a piano metal frame. Photo: Jonty Wilde, which is called “Out of Time”, weaved the children's memories of Tikharu and the history of the chapel. Once upon a time, weddings played in these walls and held secular concerts-now the building became part of the multicultural complex and, after one of the reconstructions, lost the sacred component-the organ.

Photo: Jonty Wilde Piano frame, fragments of manuscript scores, including those that have been preserved in the archives of the chapel - this is a tribute to the history of the ancient building. Photo: Jonty Wilde And for the Tikharu herself, the image of the piano is like a ghost from her past: she witnessed a fire in a neighboring house with a child, and the skeleton of a musical instrument in the fire was so brightly imprinted in her memory, which is “manifested” in her artwork as a symbol of strong emotional experience.

The installation of "Out of time", G. Photo: Jonty Wilde Tikharu Syota weaves her ghostly networks in order to capture the feelings and emotions of the audience, which she can skillfully provoke, referring to the most secret experiences. The artist’s childhood took place in Japan, in Osaka, and then she moved to study art in the United States, and in recent years she settled in Berlin.

Already while studying at the university, Syota decided that two -dimensional painting does not allow her to realize her creative ideas. But the linearity of the thread and its ability to create volumetric and transparent objects during the interweaving - inspired the Tikharu to experiments with networks. Its installations, like giant neural networks, can act as guides of thoughts and emotions, develop or absorb energy, scare away or lure.

At the same time, threads invariably remain a symbol of social ties and connections with the Universe. Tikharu Syota in the Gallery of Anna Schwartz in Melbourne, G. Photo: Sunhi Mang "Thread for me is an analogy of feelings or human relations." But the very concept of Tikharu, sometimes, begs for years. The objects that it weaves into the web, invariably in themselves have powerful symbols, cause many narratives.

For example, a white dress, bed, stairs, chair, children's toys. Installation "Key in the hand", G. Source of the image: Chiharu-shiota. Today is one of the most famous installations of the author. But its other works, for example, “during sleep”, are no less expressive - where Zyota showed how the subconscious captures the sleeping man in the cocoon. And for an artist of the 21st century, this is almost the main condition and a marker of its success.