Calls

Yuko Mohri makes kinetic-sonic sculptures that connect the seemingly random and draw on the Japanese belief in the return of the dead to ‘call’ on their descendants during mid-summer and New Year. In Calls and Oni-bi (fen fire), she makes the invisible, the disappeared, the unseen, visible and heard through sculptural forms that respond to the space they find themselves in. A collector and collagist of found objects, Mohri gathers familiar, discarded items and reframes the detritus of our lives into delicate installations. These include glasses, forks, glockenspiels, whirring motors and magnetic fields, which all move in response to friction and force. Mohri utilises gravity, magnetism, light and wind—contextual conditions—to animate her work, preferring this to human agency.