The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, announces Mariko Mori: All That Shines, Japan’s first major retrospective since Mariko Mori: Pure Land (2002) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Organized by the Mori Art Museum in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the show features some forty works spanning more than three decades and surveys Mori’s artistic and conceptual innovations across all her signature media: performance-based and computer-imaging photography and video; drawing; sculpture and large-scale interactive installations. All That Shines offers new frameworks for Mori’s practice, positioning it within the fields of technological futurism, popular visual culture, and philosophies of consciousness. At a moment when the global contemporary art world is turning with renewed attention to the diversity of cultures and civilizations, artistic practices deeply intertwined with indigenous traditions and ceremonial life are once again coming to the fore. Simultaneously, the rapid evolution of technology is profoundly reshaping the very nature of creative expression. It is within this context that a comprehensive survey of Mariko Mori’ s practice becomes not only timely, but urgent.
