Mariko Mori
(Tokyo, Japan, 1967 -)
Mini Play With Me
Date1994/2017
MediumC-print mounted on museum box with UV plexi
Dimensions11 x 14 x 2 in. (27.9 x 35.6 x 5.1 cm)
Credit LineCollection CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
CopyrightSean Kelly, New York
Object numberCCS2018.6.5
ClassificationsPhotograph
Not on view
DescriptionWorking with artists who were associated with Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co., CCS Bard and Art+Culture Projects have partnered to present specially commissioned limited editions to support The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004). Mariko Mori’s contribution utilizes a c-print Play with Me, 1994, that she mounted to a museum box and gifted to Colin de Land. In the image, Mariko is dressed in plastic form-fitting armor with long turquoise tresses standing beside a videogame machine outside a busy Tokyo electronics store. She appears as a cyborg or manga comics character, spontaneously transported from the screen to the busy street. The work is an affectionate nod to her native Japan and to her former gallerist and art dealer, Colin de Land.
