Mariko Mori. Dream Temple

Mariko Mori has rapidly become one of the best-known and most innovative artists in the field of multi-media art. Born in Tokyo in 1967, she lives and works in New York and Tokyo.
In the 1980s she developed a kind of art in which a great variety of media were used, including photography, video and performance, and she has recently made her first works with the new three-dimensional technology. Her output is characterized by a complex range of images in which diverse influences and sources converge: techno-pop culture, Oriental tradition and science.
Her artistic research involves experimentation with sophisticated techniques, such as three-dimensional video and interactive virtual reality. Her fantastic, utopian aesthetic not only expresses the current desire for concord transcending national unity but is also a result of her personal situation as an Oriental woman with her upbringing reflecting her family origins and culture. In fact Mori states: ""in the next millennium, the power and the energy of the human spirit should unify the world in peace and harmony, without any cultural or national borders".
One of Mori's most complex works is Dream Temple, a monumental multi-media installation in which the artist has combined the world of modern technology with the poetic universe of art, finding inspiration in the tradition of Japanese architecture in order to create a work in which scientific knowledge blends with a mystical atmosphere and in which the visitor becomes an active part of the project.