Marvel at the artist’s immense and intricate web-like installations, exploring the body, memory, consciousness and the fragility of existence.

Chiharu Shiota is best-known for her large-scale installations which engulf ordinary objects – such as shoes, keys, beds, chairs and dresses – within huge web structures made from woolen thread.

The resulting works are immersive and deeply emotive, often drawing from personal experience, which Shiota expands into universal human concerns such as life, death and relationships.

Accompanied by new large-scale sculptures, drawings, early performance videos and photographs, the artist’s signature works are woven from floor-to-ceiling across the Hayward Gallery’s top floor, responding to the gallery’s iconic brutalist architecture in a truly atmospheric presentation.

Want to be part of the exhibition? Shiota invites you to contribute to her installation Letters of Thanks by writing letters of thanks to anyone – family, friends or even strangers – expressing gratitude for whatever has touched their lives and adding to the rich tapestry of shared human experience that her work evokes. Submit your letter online at threadsoflife@southbankcentre.co.uk or in person to the collection box in the Hayward Gallery Foyer.

Ticket includes entry to Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart