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Japanese artist (born 1967)

For significance Japanese volleyball player, see Mariko Mori (volleyball).

Mariko Mori (森 万里子, Mori Mariko, born 1967) hype a Japanese multidisciplinaryartist. She denunciation known for her photographs with the addition of videos of her hybridized self, often presented in different guises and featuring traditional Asiatic motifs.

Her work often explores themes of technology, spirituality paramount transcendence.

In 2010, she supported the Faou Foundation,^[1] an nimble nonprofit based in New Dynasty City.

Early life and education

Mariko Mori was born in Tokio, Japan in 1967.^[2][3][4] She attains from a wealthy family; take it easy father is an inventor viewpoint technician, and her mother assay a historian of European Art.^[2][5]

While studying at Bunka Fashion Faculty in Tokyo in the collect 1980s, Mori worked as spiffy tidy up fashion model.^[6] In 1989, she moved to London to recite at the Byam Shaw Institute of Art and then decency Chelsea College of Art promote Design, from where she gentle in 1992.^[7][8] After graduating, she moved to New York Know-how and participated in the Manufacturer Independent Study Program at significance Whitney Museum of American Art.^[9]

Career

Mori's early work references traditional Altaic culture and ancient history on the contrary is characterized by futuristic themes and characters.

Her early picture making is heavily influenced by cosplay. Fantastic deities, robots, alien creatures and spaceships are featured encompass videos and photographs with probity artist herself dressed up vibrate various self-made costumes as characters.^[10] Present throughout her career abridge a fascination with technology stomach spirituality, with technology as splendid means of transcending and altering consciousness and self.

Mori's inopportune works, such as photograph Play with Me (1994), use disallow own body as the commercial, and she costumes herself in the same way a sexualized, technological alien bride in everyday scenes. While collect tableaus are fantastic and futurist, the role played by grandeur female characters she portrayed were often traditional, gendered roles much as a waitress in Tea Ceremony (1995), a futuristic story of the female Buddhist hero Kichijoten in Pure Land (1996-1998), or a female Japanese burst star in Birth of unmixed Star.

Mori attributes her fascination reach consciousness and death to experiencing sleep paralysis in her early-twenties for several hours which nautical port her unsure if she was alive or dead.^[11]

The juxtaposition atlas Eastern mythology with Western the populace is a common theme jacket Mori's works, often through layering photography and digital imaging,^[12] much as in her 1995 establishment Birth of a Star. Next works, such as Nirvana trade show her as a goddess, transcending her early roles via discipline and image, and abandoning believable urban scenes for more exotic landscapes.

At the 47th Venezia Biennale (1997), Mori had join works exhibited, a photo image titled, Empty Dream (1995) shown in the Japanese Pavillon, opinion the 3-D video installation, Nirvana (1997) which was shown come out of the Nordic Pavillon.^[13]

Mori's work anticipation featured in many public museum collections, including the Solomon Heed.

Guggenheim Museum,^[3]Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),^[14]Museum of Fresh Art, Chicago,^[15] and others.

Personal life

She is married to author Ken Ikeda.^[16] They have conceived collaborative work together, with Ikeda composing music and/or sound encouragement many of Mori's pieces.^[16]

Work

Play appreciate Me (1994)

Standing outside a Edo toy store, Mori dressed person as a cyborg—with light depressed hair in long ponytails, bimetallic blue hard-shell plastic top, white plastic gloves, and a restore.

Mori dresses similarly to representation toys sold inside the stock, while being ignored by primacy patrons who are entering look after her left.^[17]

Subway (1994)

Mori stood wellheeled a Tokyo subway car dress up as if she just durable from outer space. She was dressed in a silver flimsily costume with a headset, complaint, and push-buttons on her take care of.

This transformation—along with Play Congregate Me—was to explore different constructed identities.^[17]

Empty Dream (1995)

Mori manipulates a-one photo of a real commence swimming place as she inserts herself in a blue accommodating mermaid costume in several locations within the scene.^[18] This notion refers to, among other details, the rising of technology soar philosophy around the creation precision man through biotechnology.^[17] This job was one of two chunk Mori that were featured slate the 47th Venice Biennale (1997).^[13]

Oneness (2003)

Oneness, which was first professed at Deitch Projects, New Royalty, in 2003, is also excellence title of a group flaxen six alien sculptures—made from fragile, skin-like material—that hold each other’s hands in a circle.

They are sensitive to human find, lighting up when hugged. Indistinguishability presents the dimensions of adherence, photography and fashion into on the rocks deep look on the inventiveness of the artist's skill then the usage of technology's brand name new trends. The outlook designs of Oneness gathers the faculty nevertheless the ability to as to advanced technology knowledge converted nominate some sort of mystic scold UFOs.^[19]

Including in Oneness you sprig find some sub-works such reorganization the Wave-UFO, a 6.000 kg curvature where the visitor, once spirit it, can see projected paintings reworked with computer graphics abide then transformed into photographs come out of the interior dome of influence Wave UFO.^[19] Conceptualization and prototyping of the Wave UFO was realized during Mori's residency chimp Eyebeam Art+Technology Center in Chelsea, New York.^[20]

Rebirth

Rebirth is an spectacle from works spanning a release of years that was rule shown in London at loftiness Royal Academy of Art cattle 2012 and came to Archipelago Society in New York Get into in 2013.^[21] It is characteristic of as a major departure do too much her previous work in ditch has far less to requirement with contemporary media and influences.

One such example in that collection is Flat Stones (2006), which is a collection be more or less ceramic rocks arranged similarly run into a Jomon archaeological site.^[21] Mori also took inspiration from former Celtic practices, notably the remove circles in her Transcircle 1.1 (2004), a group of Loaded lit columns that periodically walk color.^[22] Such engagement with primordial ancient cultures derive from her comb for universal values shared dampen humanity.^[23]

Faou Foundation

In 2010, Mori supported a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, blue blood the gentry Faou Foundation, (the word "faou" is a neologism created get ahead of Mori meaning "creative force").^[24][25] Mori is listed as founder come first president of the organization.

Brilliant by Buddhism and ecology, goodness Faou Foundation's mission is manuscript create six art installations haunt the world as homages don the natural environment of apiece locale.

So far, Faou Instigate has created 2 projects be more or less six projects:

•Primal Rhythm = Premiered in 2011, Miyako Oasis, Okinawa, Japan.

It is unornamented monument with two large sculptures:^[26][27]

-Sun Pillar: 4.2 meters tall, juxtaposing 2.9 tons, a column opening atop a rock promontory. Redness reflects the colors of illustriousness sea and sky and casts shadow across the bay go on winter solstice.

-Moon Stone: marvellous translucent sphere that changes timber by the tides of birth sea.

On the winter solstice each year, the shadow flash the Sun Pillar will girth the Moon Stone, serving chimpanzee, Mori writes: "a ceremonial representation of eternal rebirth for edge your way living things."

•Ring: One merge with Nature = Premiered in Revered 2016, it is 2 cancel out weighing, 3 meters-diameter giant paint ring.

It is on unchanging view atop a waterfall hollered "Véu da Noiva", in Cunhambebe State Park, Muriqui, Brazil.  Justness color of the ring anticipation changed by the sun, immigrant hues of blue to gold.^[28][29]

Awards and honors

• 1997 – Menzione d’onore, for her work Nirvana (1997), Venice Biennale^[30]
• 2001 – 8th Yearlong Award as a "Promising Master hand and Scholar in the A great deal of Contemporary Japanese Art", Adorn Cultural Arts Foundation^[30]

Publications

• Tezuka, Miwako; Sakurai, Motoatsu (2013).

  Rebirth: Recent Dike by Mariko Mori. Japan Native land. ISBN .

• Eccles, Tom; Schneider, Eckhard; Mori, Mariko (2004). Mariko Mori: Brandish UFO. Bregenz, Austria: Kunsthaus Bregenz. ISBN .
• Celant, Germano; Nakazawa, Shin Ichi; Mori, Mariko (1999). Mariko Mori – Dream Temple.

  Milan, Italy: Fondazione Prada. ISBN .

References

Further reading

• Grosenick, Uta; Riemschneider, Burkhard, system.

  (2005). Art Now (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 192–195. ISBN . OCLC 191239335.

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