Using woven yarn, Chiharu Shiota combines performance, body art and installations in a process that places at its center the body. Her protean artistic approach plays with the notions of temporality, movement, and dreams, and demands a dual engagement from the viewer, both physical and emotional. This publication offers a poetic exploration of the artists monumental site-specific installation and her most significant shows, such as the 56th Venice Biennale. Her increasingly ambitious installations, to be found in museums worldwide, have become her signature; one by one, they build a complex body of work that questions our notions of existence and transcendence. Born in 1972 in Osaka, Japan, Chiharu Shiota has been living and working in Berlin since 1997.