Cyborgs, Ghosts, and Big Girls

In an early video, artist Mariko Mori stands in an airport. She wears a platinum Barbarella-style wig and a silver bodysuit with futuristic polythene pillow wings. Her mission: Save the Earth. Mori, as a techno-shamanic being, cradles a crystal sphere before touching it to her lips and lowering the ball...

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

February 25, 2010

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In an early video, artist Mariko Mori stands in an airport. She wears a platinum Barbarella-style wig and a silver bodysuit with futuristic polythene pillow wings. Her mission: Save the Earth. Mori, as a techno-shamanic being, cradles a crystal sphere before touching it to her lips and lowering the ball to her pelvis. Part cyborg and part bodhisattva, her kaleidoscopic-eyed vixen is out to awaken spiritual consciousness by seducing you with her vision of cosmic bliss. The tranced-out Mori is just one of the openings at Second Saturdays: Art Walk in Wynwood and the Design District at 7 p.m. this Saturday. World Class Boxing (170 NW 23rd St., Miami) will also show the haunting photographs of Anna Gaskell, who uses children’s fables, ghost stories, and films as inspiration in a psychologically freighted tableau. Her work evokes images of Alice’s tumble down the rabbit hole.
Mondays-Fridays. Starts: March 15. Continues through May 28, 2010

Carlos Suarez De Jesus

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