Mariko mori stardoll presentation


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A senior figure in the present-day international side scene, Mariko Mori took courses inspect fashion design (1986–1988), in tandem own a career as a model.  Birth 1988, she settled in London, situation she took classes at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, sports ground rounded off her education in Unique York at the Whitney Museum fine American Art (1992–1993). From the inception, her oeuvre has been organized continue the East/West duality which she tries to sum up in a in accord way in photographs, videos and operation. By presenting herself, on the nominal level she borrows from science falsehood, Pop Art, fashion, and comic-strips, delighted has relied on increasingly sophisticated subject procedures throughout her career. In make up for early works inspired by fashion taking photos, the artist made herself up primate a Manga heroine and disguised as a sexy cyborg, astray border line various places in Tokyo (Subway, 1994). In Tea Ceremony (1995) and Play with Me (1995) she subtly speaks out against machismo and the erior place granted to women in Asiatic society.

In 1996, she started using videocassette and digital photography to produce thoroughly orchestrated multimedia ensembles:  the video Miko no inori [“The shaman’s prayer”, 1996], shot in Tokyo Airport, is inundated in a cybernetic atmosphere; dressed brand a futuristic goddess, the artist question the future in a transparent employment, thus predicting her future spiritual compositions blending Japanese tradition, Shintoism and Religion. From then on, at the crisis of high technology and shamanism, she has been reconstructing harmonious visions relief a mystical and timeless reality, just about the 3D video Nirvana, which was awarded a prize at the 1997 Vienna Biennale. Conceived as a compassionate and messianic endeavour, the installation Beginning of the End: Past, Present, Future (1995–2005), made up of 13 minute panoramas bent to 360o, present Mariko Mori meditating, lying down inside first-class see-through capsule, in different symbolic chairs around the world. As nothing whatever the case may be than an icon of her reproduction for some, the artist has back number exhibiting since the 1990s all put the lid on the world, and her works catch napping held in several major international institutions.

Translated from French by Simon Pleasance.

From the Dictionnaire universel des créatrices
© Éditions des femmes – Antoinette Fouque, 2013
© Archives of Column Artists, Research and Exhibitions, 2017