Cosmology bus tour

摘要

"Rebirth", Mariko Mori's new Lon-don show begins with a darkened room. Her most celebrated work, a five-metre-high glass monolith entitled "Tom Na H-iu Ⅱ" (2006) rises like an ethereal standing stone. Lights flash within it animating the gallery with bright sweeps of colour. Ms Mori has connected the led lights of the piece to a computer at the cosmic-ray research station of the University of Tokyo which monitors the presence of neutrinos in the Earth's atmosphere, the result of cosmological events. The aim, according to the curator, Kathleen Soriano, is "to consider some of the vital forces that shape the nature of existence", and to an extent the work succeeds in this.