Purple Magazine
— The Revolutions Issue #40 F/W 2023

mariko mori, the unseen power of energetic fields

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM portrait by CHIKASHI SUZUKI artworks by MARIKO MORI   Her prismatic art triggers a paradigm shift, promoting a symbiotic union of nature, light, and technology, and inspiring a new age realm.   OLIVIER ZAHM — I’ve been looking at your work, and I find it’s becoming deeper and more interesting. It fits with the idea of revolution because we’re in a period of fear and transformation, and I believe that artists can help us to discover new directions. You yourself have taken a radical new direction in your work since the ’90s, right? You went from manga-inspired artworks, a bit pop and futuristic — I remember the cover of Purple in 1994/’95 — to a more peaceful, abstract, and almost scientific direction. One of my first surprises  was seeing your beautiful house on Miyako Island. What was the idea behind it? Is it an artwork? MARIKO MORI — I wanted to make a place like a sanctuary. The site itself,…

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