Artist field note

Mariko Mori

The future as ritual.

Appears inJapan
Play with Me by Mariko Mori — Example from the series
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Play with Me

1994

Dressed as a cybernetic shop girl, Mori turns herself into both product and person inside Tokyo consumer culture.

The five in one idea

Mori moves from pop self-invention toward cosmic ritual, using technology as a way to ask very old questions.