Collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Queensland Art Gallery. Yayoi Kusama, The obliteration room 2002-present. Now it's your turn to experience this fun and engaging work of art. By the mid-1960s Kusama had become well known in the art world for her provocative happenings and exhibitions.įor almost 70 years Kusama has been engaged in a practice encompassing painting, collage, sculpture, performance, film, installation and environmental art, as well as literature, product design and fashion, including a collaboration with Louis Vuitton in 2012. The obliteration room is a reflection of this hallucinogenic vision, as well as a way of embracing the whole world in a kind of overall pattern.īorn 1929, Kusama studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York in the late 1950s. Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2012. The work relates to hallucinations Kusama began to experience in childhood, where her vision was clouded by spots. Collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Queensland Art Gallery. The goal of the installation is to inspire the artist inside us all. Moving away from the traditional restrictions of a Gallery space, it encourages everyone to touch, engage and create in an entirely self-directed way. The white walls, ceiling, furniture and objects in the space will be obliterated over time by the mass build-up of dots into a dizzying blur of colour as visitors apply brightly coloured stickers in various sizes to every surface. Soon, the entire rooms will disappear in them. Gradually, the items in each room start dissolving into them. Visitors go in the rooms, add polka dots of various colors anywhere they want.
The iconic installation that has made waves overseas begins as a New Zealand living room drained of colour which will function as a blank canvas ready to be invigorated. As part of the Pavilion Tokyo 2021, which featured nine artists including Kusama, she created an installation named the Obliteration Room. Avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s The obliteration room family-friendly participatory installation is making the Gallery's Creative Learning Centre home on Saturday 9 December.
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