Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms were kind of interesting – one room of mirrors in which we could see ourselves and others from different angles.
The other room was filled with many tiny coloured lights, that you can’t see too well in the photo above. Somehow the phone turned the many colours into a few predominant colours.
The intent according to the blurb was to emulate Kusama’s desire to disappear into the environment – to think oneself a tiny dot among dots. Or to think oneself a tiny light among lights.
‘Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the dots, we become part of the unity of our environment. cosmos… When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots.
People looking at photos of Yayoi Kusama and her work at the Infinity Mirror Rooms exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.
The photos of Kusama were taken by Eikoh Hosoe (born 1933) who is herself an unusual photographer for her choice of treatment of her subjects. Google her name.
And this is Kusama. she is ninety something now and lives in a mental hospital as she has for the past fifty years. She had hallucinations as a child and into adulthood and that was the inspiration for her work.
Outside the exhibition a notice headed EXHIBITION GUIDANCE advised that ‘This exhibition contains nudity and flashing lights’. Kusama was naked or partially naked in some of the photographs.
The artwork I liked best was shown in a photo. What does it mean or signify? Maybe the lines that bind everything.
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