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Barbara and Michael Leisgen - Mimesis, 1972-73

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“Don’t worry. The night won’t frighten me and the cold won’t drive me away. There is no winter as cold as my winter, no night as deep as my night. I myself freeze the wind. I myself darken the sky.”

— Dulce María Loynaz

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Mariko Mori – Miko no Inori / The Shaman Girl’s Prayer (1998) Physical Release, Limited Edition of 100 Egg-shaped VHS Case

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from the art institute of chicago:

Mariko Mori creates multimedia work that conceives of art, technology, and Buddhist spirituality as interconnected, unifying forces. In the 1990s she turned to fashion and science fiction as pop-cultural models to produce unsettling, high-gloss dreamscapes.

Staged in Osaka’s Kansai International Airport, the video Miko No Inori (The Shaman-Girl’s Prayer) presents a calming but otherworldly vision. Mori stars as an extraterrestrial character: outfitted in a white, iridescent costume and wearing reflective, icy-blue contact lenses, she turns a crystal ball as if conjuring the future or caressing the object of her affection. A recording of the artist singing a haunting Japanese song (“The word is melting; the word is melting, becoming one”) plays in the background.