The Hayward Gallery Is Doing a Double Presentation on Chiharu Shiota and Yin Xiuzhen

The Hayward Gallery is presenting concurrent exhibitions by Chiharu Shiota and Yin Xiuzhen, two artists who use ordinary materials to create monumental works, to explore the way they interweave textiles and found objects into personal reflections on memory, identity and the human condition. Threads of Life by Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota is her first major solo exhibition in a London public gallery. She’s displaying immersive woven works on the gallery’s top floor, where huge thread structures engulf objects like beds, chairs and shoes as a way of interrogating ideas about consciousness, memory and existence. These are joined by new large-scale sculptures, drawings and early performance videos. Heart to Heart is the first major survey on Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen, and features large-scale installations made from everyday objects and used clothing to invite us to see the familiar in new ways. As well as sculpture, photography, video and archival performance material, her presentation features a new commission – a large textile installation made from used clothing and shaped like a human heart.