Archive Hatje Cantz Verlag | Mariko Mori

Japanese Artist Mariko Mori (*1967 In Tokyo) Has Maintained A Consciousness For The Unity Of The Material, Spiritual, And Technological World. Her Latest Work, Tom Na H-Iu, A Four-And-A-Half-Meter-Tall Glass Sculpture, Also Blends Ancient Rituals With Twenty-First-Century Technology. The Monolith Was Inspired By Celtic Menhirs, The Mythical Point Of Transition For The Soul Into A New Life. Computerized Led Rays Illuminate The Work In Various Colors, A Reference To The Real-Time Appearance Of Neutrinos Detected By The Super Kamiokande, The Japanese Neutrino Detector.

This Extraordinary Publication Offers A Retrospective Of Mori’S Oeuvre, And Is The First To Present The Complete Beginning Of The End: Past, Present, Future, A Photographic Cycle Produced Over A Period Of Eleven Years, In Which Mori Presents Herself As A Time Traveler In A Plexiglas Capsule At Significant Symbolic Locations, From Giza To New York To Shanghai.



Exhibition Schedule: Albion Gallery, London, October 9–December 22, 2006 · Groningen Museum April 29–September 2, 2007 · Aros Aarhus Kunstmuseum, October 4, 2007–January 27, 2008