Moré Moré [Leaky] an exhibition at White Rainbow, Fitzrovia, London by Yuko Mohri (b.1980, Tokyo). The artist’s first presentation at a UK gallery.
The solo exhibition by Mohri, who recently represented Japan at the 60th Venice Biennale, showcased her installation titled Moré Moré [Leaky]. This work is part of her long-term research project focusing on the Tokyo metro. Mohri first presented this project at the prestigious Nissan Art Award in 2015, where she won the award.
Mohri’s work is responsive to the built environment. Her kinetic installation at White Rainbow will be in the form of a circuit, with found materials ‘wired’ together to contain flowing water, mimicking makeshift water repairs she noticed in the Tokyo metro. Mohri’s Moré Moré [Leaky] series is characterised by extensive fieldwork, including a range of photographic documentation of the repairs. A selection of these photographs were produced and displayed for the first time at White Rainbow, and connected Mohri’s research and work with photography to her installation work, for which she is best known.
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Mohri’s installations consist of reconfigured machine parts and everyday items such as bicycle wheels, plastic sheeting, watering cans, lightbulbs and more, collected in cities around the world, from which she creates self-contained moving ‘ecosystems’, channeling intangible energies such as magnetism, gravity, temperature and light. Moré Moré follows the same lines – an assemblage of everyday items, junk, and machine parts collected in London, which will be set within a frame and suspended from the gallery ceiling.
Moré Moré [Leaky] was curated by White Rainbow. The accompanying catalogue on Yuko Mohri includes a newly commissioned essay by artist Richard Wentworth, an in conversation with Mark Rappolt, Editor, Art Review, and installation photographs.