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Yayoi Kusama had a breakthrough in 1965 when she produced Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field. Using mirrors, she transformed the intense repetition of her earlier paintings and works on paper into a perceptual experience.
- The Exhibition
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors is a celebration of the...
- Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors. The first publication to...
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- The Exhibition
- Love Forever. Hexagonal in shape and mirrored on all sides, Love Forever features two peepholes that invite you to peer in and see both yourself and another viewer repeated into infinity.
- The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away is like an out-of-body experience as you enter a a repetitive illusion created with lights and mirrors.
- All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins. The pumpkin motif first appeared in some of Kusama’s drawings from the late 1940s and has repeatedly shown up in her paintings, sculptures, drawings and installations.
- Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity. In Infinity Mirrored Room—Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity you enter into a world of flickering golden lanterns, immersing yourself in a shimmering pattern of light that contrasts with the seemingly endless void of the mirrored black space.
Tate presents a rare chance to experience two of Yayoi Kusama ’s Infinity Mirror Rooms. These immersive installations will transport you into Kusama’s unique vision of endless reflections.
- Who Is Yayoi Kusama
- The Origin of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms
- The Most Famous Infinity Rooms
- What Do The Infinity Rooms Mean?
- Where to See The Infinity Rooms
Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama came to international attention in 1960s NYC for a wide-ranging creative practice encompassing installation, painting, sculpture, fashion design and writing. Since the 1970s, she has lived in Tokyo, where she continues to work prolifically and to international acclaim.
Her earliest ideas of the infinity rooms lie in her childhood work. She made thousands of small paintings during her early years, which she later developed into sculptures. Identifying this as the beginning of her desire to create an infinite series of images, the concept would eventually come to fruition in her creation of her first mirror-roomed ...
Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field
Kusama spent much of her time between 1962 and 1964 sewing thousands of stuffed fabric tubers, grafting them to furniture, and finding objects to create her Accumulation sculptures. She exhibited the works together to create hallucinatory scenes of phallic surfaces but found the labor involved in making them physically and mentally taxing. In response to the physical intensity of this work, she started to utilize mirrors to achieve similar repetition. Infinity Mirror Room — Phalli’s Fieldwas...
Infinity Mirrored Room — Love Forever
Infinity Mirrored Room — Love Foreveris the second mirrored environment Kusama created. Sculptural, architectural and performative, the installation blurs the lines between artistic disciplines and is activated by audience participation. Hexagonal in shape and mirrored on all sides, Love Foreverfeatures two peepholes that invite visitors to peer in and see both themselves and another participant repeated into infinity. When Kusama created this Infinity Mirror Room, she experimented with new t...
Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away
Like stars in the galaxy, hundreds of LED lights hang and flicker in a rhythmic pattern that seems to suspend space and time. The visitor becomes integral to this work as their body activates the environment while simultaneously vanishing into the infinite space. The ethereal nature of the installation can be traced back to the early 2000s, when Kusama began making dimly lit mirrored rooms, a departure from her earlier brightly colored and polka-dotted spaces. Continuing her exploration of th...
During her time in New York, Kusama began to experience a shift in her creative career and her own health, much more than in prior times. Kusamareturned to Japan in 1973 and admitted herself to a Tokyo hospital in 1977, having experienced mental health issues and hallucinations throughout her life. She remains there to this day, writing and paintin...
There are many museums that have one or several of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms in their permanent collection. Two are currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. One of the rooms is the famous Phalli’s Field, and the other is My Heart Is Dancing Into the Universe. These are being exhibited to visitors t...
Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) is now open with reservations required in advance. Kusama’s Longing for Eternity (2017) is on view on the third floor and doesn't require reservations. Learn more below, and read our exclusive interview with the artist. Artworks on view are subject to change.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors. The first publication to focus on Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms, this richly illustrated volume includes insightful essays by Mika Yoshitake, Alexander Dumbadze, and Gloria Sutton, as well as an interview with the artist by Melissa Chiu, the Hirshhorn’s director. More info.
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Chandelier of Grief. Yayoi Kusama. 2016/2018.
