Good condition.
Signed on the tag.
There are dirt marks throughout the surface of the artwork. The stickers are scuffed and faded.

Seiko Mikami (1961 - 2015) was one of the leading artists in Japanese media art. In the 1980s, Mikami worked on themes of physicality and information society. After the 1990s, her focus shifted more toward interfacing perception to create interactive works on the theme of the World Membrane. Her most representative works include ‘Eye-Tracking Informatics’ (2011) and ‘World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body’(1997), and so forth.

In 1993, Mikami presented this work in her solo exhibition “World Membrane: Disposal Containers” at Gallery NW House in Waseda, Tokyo, along with six other suitcases placed on a platform reminiscent of a conveyor belt at an airport. Each suitcase was filled with containers showing the symbols which implies contaminated waste. And this work, in particular, there is the stickers on the surface that suggest the contaminated laboratory animals are inside the case, which hinting us a feeling of anxiety from the work. Mikami had been working on her practice based on the concept of a world consisting of diverse membranes both in a complex and intertwined manner. Through this work, Mikami attempted to ask us to confront this reality caused by the global and contemporary information society, through the communication between symbols and our perception. As we had gone through the coronavirus pandemic, this work makes us think as if the artist had anticipated the period that would come later. This work was shown public again at Capsule Gallery (Tokyo) in 2020.

“Curator's Eye '93 vol.1-6”, Gallery NW House, 1993, p. 20, no. 17

“World Membrane: Disposal Containers”, April 21 - May 3, 1993, Gallery NW House, Tokyo