Mariko Mori

Spirifer II by Mariko Mori

Spirifer II

Great Jones Alley

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Cyclic II, 2014

Sagaponack

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Ocean House

Mariko Mori was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1967 and currently lives and works in London, New York and Tokyo.

The daughter of an art historian and an inventor, Mori began her career as a photographer and video artist, transitioning into installation art and sculpture. This sculpture, Cyclic II, is part of a series of 10 sculptures that explore Mori’s interest in Möbius forms and physics. Her works play with the infinite loop of the Möbius strip as a visualization of our universe’s never-ending renewal of invisible energy. These futuristic, large-scale aluminum, paint, and lacquer works have no beginning, middle, or end, symbolizing an eternal cycle of existence of nature and the universe in perpetual motion. She is widely regarded as one of the most important artists to emerge from Japan in the past fifty years.

Solo exhibitions include

  • Japan Society in New York

  • Royal Academy of Arts, London

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

  • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, New Yoek

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.