Mariko Mori

Mariko Mori is a Japanese artist. She mainly focused on photography but she was also a fashion model during the late 1980’s. Mariko studied at Bunka Fashion College then she moved to London in 1989 to go study abroad at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. Some of her most famous works include “Play With Me”, “Nirvana”, “Empty Dream”, and “Birth of a Star”. Play with me is Mariko dressing up as an attractive cyborg outside of a Tokyo toystore. She looks like a robot and she was trying to show that she connects to the robotic toys that were located inside as well as show her robotic sexuality. In “Empty Dream” Mariko manipulates a photo of a pool and inserts numerous pictures of herself dressed as a mermaid around the original photo. She says that this symbolizes the rise in technology in mankind. In her later works she shows a liking to alienlike landscapes and rather abandoning more realistic urban scenes. overall, Mariko Mori was very interesting artist to me. mostly, she was the model on her work and her work connects from past to present or message she wanted to express to audience. also, it was very interesting to know that all the custome she used during her performance were kept in capusle bottle and remaine unopen for the next 25 years or more.

Birth Of a Star

Play With Me

Nirvana

Empty Dream