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yayoi kusama’s infinity room premieres alongside 200 of her works at NGV melbourne
- The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne is displaying a new world premiere Infinity Mirrored Room by Yayoi Kusama as part of her retrospective, opening on December 15th 2024.
- The Infinity Mirrored Room is called My Heart is Filled to the Brim with Sparkling Light (2024), and features a boundless visual realm through reflective surfaces, surrounding visitors in the illusion of a celestial universe.
- The Yayoi Kusama retrospective will showcase 200 works, including ten immersive installations, spanning the artist’s eight-decade career, positioning her infinity rooms in dialogue with her innovations in painting, sculpture, fashion and more.
- This installation uses mirrored space to create the illusion of an infinite celestial expanse with points of light orchestrated to generate a rhythmic interplay of brightness and shadow, encouraging reflection on one's place in the universe.
- Kusama's signature use of mirrors, introduced in her first mirrored environments in the 1960s, continue to dissolve spatial boundaries in her unique vision.
- The exhibition also features the Australian premiere of Kusama's monumental sculpture, Dancing Pumpkin (2020), a 5-meter-tall yellow and black polka-dotted piece, and of The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe (2019), an installation of tentacular forms.
- NGV’s Great Hall will host Dots Obsession, an installation of massive inflated spheres while over 60 trees along the St Kilda road area are already dressed in pink-and-white polka dots as part of Ascension of Polka Dots on the Trees.
- The retrospective will be the most comprehensive Kusama exhibition ever presented in Australia, and will occupy the entire ground floor of NGV International tracing Kusama’s diversity and innovations in her art form.
- Other works that will be on display include Chandelier of Grief, 2016/2018, The Spirit of the Pumpkins Descended to the Heavens, 2017, With all my love for the tulips, I pray forever, 2013, and Invisible Life, 2000/2024.
- The exhibition will run until April 21st, 2025 at the NGV International, located at 180 St Kilda Rd, in Melbourne, Australia.
- Kusama’s installations, from the past or ongoing, symbolize some of the artist's efforts in helping the audience to grapple with the ontological dread surrounding the ‘eternal void’ through a realistic experience so that it is experienced with an open heart and joyful happiness.
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