She is a Japanese video and installation artist born in the 1960s. I went to the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park with my Granny and my brothers to her exhibition in 1998 during our school holidays aged 15 and it made this massive impression on me. her work was very sci-fi and kitsch at the same time. It was mysterious and wacky and I thought that anyone who was capable of imagining things like that must be genius. Because of that one exhibition, I applied to study a language at University of a country I hadn't been to. Makes you wonder what different paths one might end up taking just on account of such small influences; what if the gallery had been closed that day, and we went to something about space instead? Would I have become interested in physics and the moon? There is no way to plan or predict what we are going to come into contact with, what will stick and what we'll forget.
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