MARIKO MORI

MARIKO MORI - Burning Desire 1996-98

...where Surface meets Sacred...

Mariko Mori's work is very innovative and complex, mostly it's based on installations and sophisticated videoartistical projects, in which everythingis meticolously thought. Her body presence shows an author as a medium of communication, as an artistical product himself. The artist appears and floatsthrough her opera like a dream vision, the image enchants and comunicate to the visitor who is taken into an artificial Kosmos that has its principle in the author as a demiurge. Mariko Mori uses her presence to create many and different icons, and actually we can see that her last works are directed to performe divinities or prietesses, in a world where superficial meets sacred.What mostly catches my attention, looking toward her work, is that her art is conceptually different from other performative artists'ones. Her presence is so iconographic (and sometimes so ironic) that paradoxically the artist herself could neither exists in the reality, as a mirage. Mori's art is even expressed through "kosupure" (costume play): the clothes she wears and creates have an important rule in the performance, where fashion meets technologies and cyberspace meets concepts.

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