Through pen and ink renderings, Virginia Mori continues her elegant and surreal interpretations of the prosaic. The Italian illustrator and animator gravitates toward the everyday and turns moments of relative simplicity into strange otherworldly scenes.
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Often featuring minimal palettes of pastel colors, the introspective works meld relatable feelings of anxiety, hesitation, and fear with dreamlike inventions. Using simple line drawings and pared-down images, Virginia Mori captures complex human emotions.
Currently, Mori has works on view in a group exhibition through May 7 at the Seoul Museum and is preparing for another opening in September at Jiro Miura Gallery in Tokyo.
Though many of Mori’s illustrations lean toward melancholy with themes of isolation and anxiety, moments of levity and escapism can be found, especially in her works that feature books.
The illustrations seem to peek into her subjects’ dreams, projecting their hidden hopes or fears onto their surroundings as they slumber.
Each illustration presents an improbable or unique vision of a bedroom—from a bed composed of live grass to another balanced on the tips of four trees.
