Artists that work with personal objects research

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Artists that work with personal objects research

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/24/artist-chiharu-shiota-installatio

Japanese artist Chiharu creates amazing web like structures around personal objects often in gallery spaces.

She came from Osaka to Berlin in the late nineties and studied under the performance queen Marina Abramovich. She has created webs around children’s toys to wedding dresses to hospital beds. In this piece it evokes the idea of a person dreaming and how far away they are when someone is asleep.

In this piece she asked for donations of shoes from people, a shoe that is possibly from a loved one that has died. Then she attached taut red threads to each shoe symbolising a journey that is passed.

Helge Steppan

http://www.re-title.com/artists/helga-steppan.asp

See Through – All My Things /white/, 2004, C-type Print, 30″ x 36″.
See Through is a series of twelve photographs. In which I audited all my personal belongings
and divided them into a full spectrum of colour groupings.

Helga Steppan is a Swedish artist that graduated from Royal College of Art in London, 2004.
She works using photography in combination with installation, moving-image and elements of performance. Her work is conceptually driven; she sets up clearly defined parameters to work within and then attempts to fulfil the criteria she has imposed, documenting the process and results. These actions and the process behind is as big a part of the art-piece as the end product seen by the viewer. Steppan’s interest in the moment (scene) between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional is seen as both a visual and spatial form but also through the audience experience and participation. How everyday objects, people and situations/environments relates to each other. Her multi-pronged experiments in documenting demonstrate that the process of reconstruction highlights the powers of the apparently mundane objects to summon memories and evoke experiences.

What I like about Steppans work is that the objects she uses are recontextualised and as a result they seem to create a new narrative. I m also interested in personal objects but also the space around personal objects or where they are kept or contained. What memories or images would come to mind by placing an object outside of its usual place? This I find really interesting.