Pure land mariko mori function
Mariko mori artist.
Pure land mariko mori function
| Pure Land, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, (January–March 2002), is Mariko Mori’s first large scale solo exhibit in Japan, although she has held numerous solo exhibitions in both private and public galleries in the United States and Europe.
The return to her native country has been well received, with critics in the national newspapers praising her "universality" and then eagerly citing her brief stretch in modeling all in the same breathe. Yet the concept of performative fantasy, the acting out personas or roles constructed from underlying desires and imaginative compulsions—a concept central to the exhibit, has been largely neglected in discussions of Mori’s work. Pure Land explores the divergent ways this enactment creates meaning and power. While one photowork suggests that fantasy pervades and impels consumer desire, another simultaneously reveals how it propagates religious devotion. On whole, the collection expresses the ubiquity |