Mariko HORI





_As salt weeps slowly   

   installation / mud, salt / 2022 
   Commissioned for Salt Museum



   Over the exhibition period, the mud will gradually dry out while the salt will absorb
   moisture from the air, if the conditions are right. It may slowly produce droplets of water as
   if it were shedding tears. The tears of salt will slowly try to moisten the drying mud and
   then seep into it.

   This work suggests the relationship between the various things that exist in this world.
   Like the mud and the salt, two very different things may come together over time, such as
   artificial things and nature, opposing nations and peoples or dreams and realities…..
   However, as the time of salt shows, processes in nature are very slow, compared to the speed
   we live in now. It also depends very much on other conditions.  
























From the Solo Exhibition 'Sweat, Tears, or the Sea'
11. Nov. 2022 - 12. Feb. 2023

at Salt Museum on Jeungdo island, South Korea

Art Like Salt 2022: Taepyung Salt Farm X LAMPLAB 









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