Mariko Mori. Dream Temple

From Saturday the 22nd May through to Tuesday the 15th June, the Fondazione Prada will present a new monumental multimedia project, centered on the Dream Temple by Japanese artist Mariko Mori (Tokyo, 1967), a complex, ambitious architectural initiative, projected towards the twenty-first century, that represents a utopian place, the ideal destination at the end of a path towards spiritual discovery. A journey that culminates in the hi-tech entrance to the flow of consciousness of each living being.
The exhibition, conceived by Mariko Mori herself for the Fondazione Prada display areas, describes an ideal voyage that consists of two spectacular and impressive visions - the Garden of Purification and the Space of Meditation - accessed through two initiation antechambers. Each step of the voyage features a single work and is characterized a particular quality of light, one of the essential elements used by Mariko Mori to convey purity and universality. Light also means internal enlightenment, attained along the individual?s path towards self-awareness, a state in which the relation between exterior and interior light is defined.