Forget space travel, time capsules. Past, present, and future are but alter egos video artist Mariko Mori (森万里子, b. 1967 in Tokyo, Japan) embodies in the glow of a moon-age daydream. Now showing through August 1, Kumano (1997-98) celebrates the Asia Society’s recent acquisition of a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. Affirming her knack for re-invention and media overlay, Kumano witnesses Mori’s quirky jumble of the temporal continuum in fairy, shaman, and angel incarnations. As the exhibition flows from traditional layout to meditative chamber and theater, Mori’s own spiritual journey (no whimsical diversion but a twelve-hour trek) to the revered 8th century pilgrimage site is illuminated. An ancient stone statue, 18th-century golden Tibetan icon and Japanese silk scroll are among the treasures she cycles through with shimmering, looping vocals, as if to reference the non-linear arc of Shintoism and mutability of adopted religions. Once having described her aim to “connect [ancient things] with contemporary life through the technology we have now”, Mori implements aural layering and digital imaging to splice epochs of Asian belief systems.