![]() ![]() ![]() Yayoi Kusama, The Obliteration Room 2002-present, installed 2017 ![]() ![]() It does feel like a little party in there, and the party is around you as you see your reflection centered among the dancing infinity that feels full of hope and joy. I saw lots of kids get very excited and emit little screams of happiness seeing the flashing lights and change in colors. This was a really fun experience – you peek in one at a time, but there are two peekholes available, and unlike the rooms there is no time limit though most people took only a minute or so. For the artist, the concept of “Love Forever” stood for civil rights, sexual liberation, the antiwar movement, and the activist groups of the 1960s. Text from the sign in the exhibit: At the time Kusama created this Infinity Mirror Room, she was experimenting with new technology and viewed the work as a “machine for animation.” During the 1966 exhibition opening of Kusama’s Peep Show, which featured this work, Kusama distributed buttons with the message “Love Forever” printed on them. Hexagonal in shape and mirrored on all sides, Love Forever features two peepholes that invite visitors to peer in and see both themselves and another participant repeated into infinity. Sculptural, architectural, and performative, the installation blurs the lines between artistic disciplines and is activated by audience participation. Text from the sign in the exhibit: Infinity Mirrored Room-Love Forever is an iteration of the second mirrored environment Kusama created. Infinity Mirrored Room-Love Forever, 1966/1994 Sounds of tears, shed upon eating the color of cotton rose Swallow antidepressants and it will be goneĪmidst the agony of flowers, the present never endsĪt the stairs to heavens, my heart expires in their tendernessĬalling from the sky, doubtless, transparent in its shade of blue Translation of “Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict” It is hard to hear the sound unless you are very close in the room, but there is a translation of what she is saying alongside the wall by one of the inflated large pink polka dots that says the following Text from the sign in the exhibit: The work engages visitors on contrasting scales: the tiny micro-space seen through a peephole and the macro life-sized space that envelops the viewer within the installation.īelow you can see the peep hole on the left, and then on the right what you see when you peek into it!Ī video monitor hanging from the ceiling of the gallery features Kusama singing one of her poems. Visitors can enter a mirrored room inside one of the balloons or peer inside another. Hanging from the ceiling and occupying the floor, these inflatable objects disrupt the viewer’s path. Text from the sign in the exhibit: In 1996, Kusama began creating a series of installations incorporating polka-dotted balloons. Vinyl balloons, balloon dome with mirror room, peep-in mirror dome, and video projection Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession-Love Transformed into Dots, 2007, installed 2017 If you can’t make it to the exhibit, hopefully the photos and videos I am sharing in this post from when I was visiting Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors at Seattle Art Museum on August 12 will give you at least an idea of how amazing Kusama is.ĭots Obsession-Love Transformed into Dots After Seattle, the exhibit goes to The Broad in Los Angeles, and advanced tickets for the exhibit in The Broad go on sale at noon on September 1. As shared in my post last week on Yayoi Kusama, there are no more advanced tickets available for the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors exhibit in Seattle, but there are always tickets available for the day of your visit if you go there before the museum opens and line up to try getting the first come, first serve tickets at 10 AM. ![]()
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