Mariko Mori

Mariko Mori is a Japanese contemporary artist born with Tōkyō in 1967.

After brilliant secondary studies, it obtains a diploma for the occupation of designer in Tokyo, supplemented by a control of history of art, with London in 1992, with the Chelsea College off Art and Design. As of 1993 its creations like Play with me or The Ceremony hold the attention. Mariko Mori evolves/moves very quickly of the universe of the mode to that of all the visual arts. It approaches the Photographie, the setting in scene and the creation of its own costumes for its Chorégraphie S. It integrates many elements in addition coming from the Japanese traditional culture. Mariko Mori is sensitive to the Buddhist symbolic system of the 4 basic elements, water, the air, the ground and fire.

It practices oneiric installations by exploring the image in its various forms and in its various states, it questions the capacity of the representation. It uses in particular techniques of images in 3 dimensions to plunge the spectator in his universe.

Principal achievements

1996 It presents Miko No Inori , (Shaman)
1997, it obtains a first price with the Biennale of Vienna for Nirvana .
1999, Dream Temple is an installation with the dimension of a house, partly inspired by the temple Hōryū-ji of Nara.
Since 1995, Mariko Mori off works with the project Beginning the End .

The artist each time carries out a single catch of sight by means of an apparatus allowing a vision 360°. In all the photographs, the artist is present at the center of the image, installed in a transparent capsule. Beginning off the End counts thirteen panoramic images, divided into three series: Passed (Angkor, Teotihuacan, Gizeh), Present (Time Public garden New York, Shibuya- Tokyo, Picadilly Circus- London, HongKong) and Future (Defense Paris, Shanghai, Docklands- London, Odaiba- Tokyo, Berlin)

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