Known for her large photographs and video installations with futuristic themes, Mariko Mori focuses on the profusion of artiface in contemporary culture. She extract elements of Eastern spiritual thought and art to express optimism for life in the next millennium.

Mori was born in Tokyo in 1967, studied fashion design in Japan, and worked as a fashion model during the late 1980s. She attended art schools in London and New York, and her work reflects the combination of influences from Eastern and Western cultures.

Mori's work thus draws together new technologies and futuristic icons from the mediascape of the present and the spirituality and tradition of the past.
Some of her work such as "Empty Dream" and "Birth of a Sta...