Hidemi Shimura

Born in Shizuoka, Japan. Graduated from Musashino Art Univ. majored in fashion design in Tokyo.
After graduate, she worked as a 3DCG creator for some years. Then she started her real activity as a contemporary artist. 
Through the exhibition in Japan, Shanghai, and other cities in Europe and the U.S., now she is spreading her activity to the world gradually. In 2007, she moved to Shanghai which is her favorite city since before, and did activities as an artist there. She moved back to Japan in December 2014, now she lives in Tokorozawa-city, Saitama.
Her main series of artworks "Silent Invaders" are made by coiled colorful embroidery threads, she already made more than 200 works of this series.

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	Silent Invader (SS_rd18) 120 x 240 mm 2013
	Silent Invader (SS_yl16) 240 x 120 mm 2013
			Silent Invader (SS_ml12) 240 x 120 mm 2013
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■Concept
　“It's been a while since bar code has spread over our life. But "What is bar code? Who is it?" It might be an envoy sent by an alien who wants to dominate over the Earth. Or it could be some code made by some confidential organization (like CIA or something) to brainwash the people. The 'Bar code' must be scheming something at this time. All of you, please be careful enough when you use the bar code!”

Bar code part represents something artificial and men themselves,  multi colour stripe parts represent the world around us.
If you see the detail of the colour part, mismatched colours like normally people won’t combine together are located next to each other. This world is filled with a wide variety of people and miscellaneous things, at first glance, it looks chaotic but when you see it from far away, you’ll find out unexpected harmonies.
The world surround us also seems to be chaotic, but in fact, there are some kind of balance and harmony. If you see the world from a distance, you can find new beauty and harmony. Like this, I represent the relation of the world surrounding us and ordinally life of people by my artworks.

■Material
embroidery thread, acrylic board, double-sided tape,paper
※Coil embroidery threads to thin cutted acrylic boards. Stick them to an acrylic board.

Tension (M_1) 650 x 540 mm 2009

Tension (SS_gr_1) 240 x 240 mm 2010

■Concept
The figure of Chinese character “人” (people) express two people hold each other. But for me each people have their own power of attraction, and many people are pulling each other. (Crushed stones express people ourselves, threads express pulling tension between people and people.) Especially I feel it after I moved to Shanghai, in this busy city, many people come and leave in short term, because Shanghai is just a temporary stop for many people. That kind of tension (some kind of stress) is essential power for people’s life, naturally each people are isolated and living their life, but people are keeping their balance by being pulled by many direction.
But once the balance of tension is lost, the string can be cut or become loosen. That will cause stress or carelessness, then people will loose their own rhythm of their life. But people try to fix the string to get back the balanced life again.
That connection of threads start from people around you, then spread out to oversea, then cover entire world. When I imagine entire earth is covered by many many meshes, I feel like I’m nearly going crazy. But at the same time, that scenery seems to be very beautiful to me.

■Material
threads, brick stone and concrete from construction site, photographs printed on paper, acrylic paint, wood panel

■Technique
Print out the photographs on paper and collage it on wood panel, paint acrylic paint on it, put many screw inside panel’s frame, tie thread on it, then tie and coil threads on small broken brick and concrete, continue doing it until every stone will be connected with some tension.