Mariko HORI





 _the airing project


    is an ongoing project since 2012 in which Mariko Hori installs vegetables on street statues.

   
    The unexpected objects provide the viewer with a sudden and refreshing moment. For
    example, when one notices that there is a carrot, something out of context, on a statue which
    he/ she passes by everyday and had ceased to notice about it, one will notice the ‘aesthetics’
    the ‘new-ness’ of this vegetable, something she/he wouldn’t usually notice at a green market.
    But right after that, one begins to see, to perceive and to notice the statue again, in a new
    way, not different but without the ‘dust’ of conditioned perception. All of a sudden, the statue
    ‘shines forth’, as if it’s so new and so fresh that you perceive it as if it was for the first time
    in your life. At that point the world looks completely different from the previous second. And
    through such experience, you begin to think of the world from another perspective, and this
    in turn may influence and ultimately change the world.




_Austria 


_Bulgaria


_Finland


_France


_Germany


_Greece


_Serbia


_Spain


_Sweden


_UK


_and more


_and more and more














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