Product Description: The Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972) creates capacious installations that surround the viewer like a mental space. The artist works with her own body and with found objects such as clothing, shoes and dolls; the most striking characteristic of her work is the web of wool threads which connect the space, the objects, the performer and the audience...read more

Product Description: Sport, as a media event and leisure ritual, is increasingly becoming a center of commercial and personal interest, with an ever greater role in society, politics, and the economy. Thus was this investigation into the role of sport in the arts instigated, focusing on the cult of the star, mass hysteria, the portrayal of sporting heroes in the media, self-chastisement, obsession with beauty, and fashion trends in the fitness industry...read more