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The unlimitedness of technical possibilities and materials, which was initiated by the modern movements of art and continues today increasingly, has guided the artist to an infinite universe of diversity where he will have difficulty in making choices. The use of everyday objects in the form of both self-fulfillment and artistic expression looks like an inevitable choice in such diversity. Besides the technical possibilities and diversity of materials, emotional state of the artist and semantic dimension of the work of art have gained importance in today's art. The artist not only wants to reflect what he sees but rather his inner world and the reason for his presence in his work of art. In the work of art, the reason for presence, absence, life and death and all kinds of reasons for existence of humanity on earth are questioned and the audience is expected to question the same. In line with this approach of choice and expectation, the installations of Chiharu Shiota, one of the most original and innovative artists of the 21st century, are deemed worthy of studying in terms of both the use of the everyday objects and the semantic dimension of the works of art. That Shiota, who is inspired by his personal emotions and experiences in his works of art, extends them to universal questions based on the relationships between individuals leads to new questions about the state of presence and absence. This study highlights the importance of the ability to add new definitions to the concept of presence and absence through everyday objects and that such new definitions can create new contexts in the work of art, based on the installations constructed by Shiota with threads. To that end, the installations where Shiota relates his artistic questions to existential questions and such relations are effective were studied using qualitative methods.