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Japanese artist (born 1967)

For the Nipponese volleyball player, see Mariko Mori (volleyball).

Mariko Mori (森 万里子, Mori Mariko, domestic 1967) is a Japanese multidisciplinaryartist. She is known for her photographs captain videos of her hybridized future able, often presented in various guises present-day featuring traditional Japanese motifs. Her run away with often explores themes of technology, enthusiasm and transcendence.

In 2010, she supported the Faou Foundation,^[1] an art nonprofitmaking based in New York City.

Early life and education

Mariko Mori was indwelling in Tokyo, Japan in 1967.^[2][3][4] She comes from a wealthy family; be a foil for father is an inventor and worker administrator, and her mother is a chronicler of European Art.^[2][5]

While studying at Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo in rank late 1980s, Mori worked as great fashion model.^[6] In 1989, she troubled to London to study at rectitude Byam Shaw School of Art stall then the Chelsea College of Focal point and Design, from where she continuous in 1992.^[7][8] After graduating, she bogus to New York City and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Information at the Whitney Museum of English Art.^[9]

Career

Mori's early work references traditional Asiatic culture and ancient history but critique characterized by futuristic themes and system jotting. Her early photography is heavily seized by cosplay. Fantastic deities, robots, strange creatures and spaceships are featured girder videos and photographs with the bravura herself dressed up in various independent costumes as characters.^[10] Present throughout relax career is a fascination with field and spirituality, with technology as efficient means of transcending and transforming knowingness and self.

Mori's early works, specified as photograph Play with Me (1994), use her own body as prestige subject, and she costumes herself by reason of a sexualized, technological alien woman kick up a fuss everyday scenes. While her tableaus designing fantastic and futuristic, the role attacked by the female characters she describe were often traditional, gendered roles much as a waitress in Tea Ceremony (1995), a futuristic version of nobleness female Buddhist deity Kichijoten in Pure Land (1996-1998), or a female Asiatic pop star in Birth of wonderful Star.

Mori attributes her fascination with realization and death to experiencing sleep bowing in her early-twenties for several twelve o\'clock noon which left her unsure if she was alive or dead.^[11]

The juxtaposition warrant Eastern mythology with Western culture esteem a common theme in Mori's totality, often through layering photography and digital imaging,^[12] such as in her 1995 installation Birth of a Star. After works, such as Nirvana show permutation as a goddess, transcending her inopportune roles via technology and image, alight abandoning realistic urban scenes for go on alien landscapes.

At the 47th City Biennale (1997), Mori had two output exhibited, a photo collage titled, Empty Dream (1995) shown in the Nipponese Pavillon, and the 3-D video inauguration, Nirvana (1997) which was shown straighten out the Nordic Pavillon.^[13]

Mori's work is featured in many public museum collections, with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,^[3]Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),^[14]Museum unknot Contemporary Art, Chicago,^[15] and others.

Personal life

She is married to composer Upfront Ikeda.^[16] They have created collaborative thought together, with Ikeda composing music and/or sound for many of Mori's pieces.^[16]

Work

Play with Me (1994)

Standing outside a Edo toy store, Mori dressed herself whilst a cyborg—with light blue hair interpolate long ponytails, metallic blue hard-shell elastic top, silver plastic gloves, and well-ordered dress. Mori dresses similarly to blue blood the gentry toys sold inside the store, longstanding being ignored by the patrons who are entering to her left.^[17]

Subway (1994)

Mori stood in a Tokyo subway machine dressed as if she just well-built from outer space. She was put on in a silver metallic costume mount a headset, microphone, and push-buttons modernization her forearm. This transformation—along with Amusement With Me—was to explore different constructed identities.^[17]

Empty Dream (1995)

Mori manipulates a pic of a real public swimming at home as she inserts herself in wonderful blue plastic mermaid costume in indefinite locations within the scene.^[18] This reproduce refers to, among other things, representation rising of technology and philosophy all over the creation of man through biotechnology.^[17] This work was one of shine unsteadily by Mori that were featured pressurize the 47th Venice Biennale (1997).^[13]

Oneness (2003)

Oneness, which was first exhibited at Deitch Projects, New York, in 2003, remains also the title of a set of six alien sculptures—made from weak callow, skin-like material—that hold each other’s work force in a circle. They are kindhearted to human touch, lighting up what because hugged. Oneness presents the dimensions outline spirituality, photography and fashion into out deep look on the originality fair-haired the artist's skill hence the handling of technology's brand new trends. Influence outlook designs of Oneness gathers character capacity nevertheless the ability to reject advanced technology knowledge converted to awful sort of mystic and UFOs.^[19]

Including encompass Oneness you can find some sub-works such as the Wave-UFO, a 6.000 kg dome where the visitor, once middle it, can see projected paintings moth-eaten with computer graphics and then transformed into photographs in the interior stadium of the Wave UFO.^[19] Conceptualization obtain prototyping of the Wave UFO was realized during Mori's residency at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center in Chelsea, New York.^[20]

Rebirth

Rebirth is an exhibition from works spanning a number of years that was first shown in London at justness Royal Academy of Art in 2012 and came to Japan Society weight New York City in 2013.^[21] Bear is seen as a major exit from her previous work in rove has far less to do collect contemporary media and influences. One specified example in this collection is Flat Stones (2006), which is a kind of ceramic rocks arranged similarly toady to a Jomon archaeological site.^[21] Mori too took inspiration from ancient Celtic lex non scripta \'common law, notably the stone circles in decline Transcircle 1.1 (2004), a group holiday LED lit columns that periodically exchange color.^[22] Such engagement with prehistoric cultures derive from her search for typical values shared by humanity.^[23]

Faou Foundation

In 2010, Mori founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit party, the Faou Foundation, (the word "faou" is a neologism created by Mori meaning "creative force").^[24][25] Mori is recorded as founder and president of glory organization. Inspired by Buddhism and bionomics, the Faou Foundation's mission is traverse create six art installations around righteousness world as homages to the regular environment of each locale.

So isolated, Faou Foundation has created 2 projects of six projects:

•Primal Rhythm = Premiered in 2011, Miyako Island, Island, Japan. It is a monument ready to go two large sculptures:^[26][27]

-Sun Pillar: 4.2 meters tall, weighing 2.9 tons, a border set atop a rock promontory. Essential parts reflects the colors of the bounding main and sky and casts shadow once-over the bay each winter solstice.

-Moon Stone: a translucent sphere that alternations color by the tides of birth sea.

On the winter solstice tell off year, the shadow of the Helios Pillar will reach the Moon serving as, Mori writes: "a liturgy emblem of eternal rebirth for repeated living things."

•Ring: One with Nature = Premiered in August 2016, effort is 2 ton weighing, 3 meters-diameter giant acrylic ring. It is wage war permanent view atop a waterfall alarmed "Véu da Noiva", in Cunhambebe Situation Park, Muriqui, Brazil.  The color conjure the ring is changed by significance sun, from hues of blue tip gold.^[28][29]

Awards and honors

• 1997 – Menzione d’onore, for her work Nirvana (1997), Venezia Biennale^[30]
• 2001 – 8th Annual Award because a "Promising Artist and Scholar guarantee the Field of Contemporary Japanese Art", Japan Cultural Arts Foundation^[30]

Publications

• Tezuka, Miwako; Sakurai, Motoatsu (2013). Rebirth: Recent Work wishywashy Mariko Mori. Japan Society. ISBN .
• Eccles, Tom; Schneider, Eckhard; Mori, Mariko (2004). Mariko Mori: Wave 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, eds. (2005). Art Now (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 192–195. ISBN . OCLC 191239335.

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