The Mori Art Musem is currently hosting an exhibition of previously unidentified life forms. These newly evolved creatures were found recently in urban areas, structurally resemble flowers, fish and insects, and have a complex inorganic, electromagnetic make-up.
Or so South Korean sculptor Choe U-Ram would have us believe at his installation of visually stunning metallic sculptures. The show is the fourth chapter of the MAM (Mori Art Museum) Project that was initiated to promote promising new talents; previous chapters introduced to Japan the Argentine installation/site-specific artist Santiago Cucullu, the Finnish artists and designers ROR (Revolutions on Request) and the Japanese-Vietnamese installation/video artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba.
The center piece of Choe's exhibition is "Urbanus," which structurally resembles a huge metallic flower, or a beautiful but monstrous spider. It's perfectly synchronized, palpitating movements are strangely erotic -- but you may not want to get too close, as the scientific description the artist helpfully provides says: "The light from the genitals emit a great number of electrically charged parts."