#Kusama obliteration room series

In 2017, She held a large retrospective exhibition “My Eternal Soul” (The National Art Center, Tokyo) and in the same year, the Yayoi Kusama Museum opened in Shinjuku, Tokyo. She is one of the most important Japanese artists, continuing to work energetically in and outside Japan today. Her representative works include Infinity Net, Dots Obsession, Pumpkin, and My Eternal Soul. In addition to her artistic activities, she has also published a number of novels and poems. The Obliteration Room by Yayoi Kusama: The Pavilion Tokyo 2021 Imagine you cover your entire body with polka dots.

#Kusama obliteration room series

This space has been transformed into a series of domesticstyle rooms, reminiscent of the average Australian home, filled with furniture and objects. In 1957, she moved to United States by herself and discovered an artistic philosophy of self-obliteration through obsessive repetition and multiplication of a single motif, and established herself as an avantgarde artist by developing a diverse range of works including net paintings, soft sculptures, environmental sculptures using mirrors and electric lights, and happenings. The installation of Yayoi Kusama’s popular interactive children’s project has taken the work to a new scale, filling our Children’s Art Centre at GOMA. She has experienced visions and auditory hallucinations from an early age, and began to draw polka dots and net patterns as motifs. This current installation coincides with ‘ Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow‘ on show until Sunday 11 February 2018.Born in 1929. Yayoi Kusama Studio Inc / Photographs: Natasha Harth © QAGOMAĭelve deeper into Yayoi Kusama’s world QAGOMA’s The obliteration room revisits the popular interactive children’s project developed by Kusama for the Gallery’s fourth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in 2002. Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2012 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / © Yayoi Kusama. Commissioned Queensland Art Gallery, Australia. In the summer before my Mother took her last breath, I found myself. Yayoi Kusama commenting on The Obliteration Room. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

Yayoi Kusama, Japan b.1929 / The obliteration room 2002 to present (Installation view GOMA 2017-18) / Furniture, white paint, dot stickers / Collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Queensland Art Gallery. Art That Worked: How Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room helped me grieve my mother. Originally commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, the installation consists of a completely white space fully furnished with entirely white furniture. In her artwork, Kusama uses dots, she calls this process ‘obliteration’ – the complete destruction of every trace of something. According to Tate Modern, ‘The Obliteration Room’ is one of Kusama’s most ambitious interactive works. Why dots? When Kusama was young, she started seeing the world through a screen of dots, they covered everything she saw – even her own body. The obliteration room 2002 to present is transformed over time as dots accumulate in the space, so enter the world of leading contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama before it closes on Sunday 4 February, add your colourful dot stickers to a range of white furniture and surfaces and help ‘obliterate’ our domestic space. We can’t believe our interactive installation once was pristine white when it opened in October 2017.