Infinity Mirrored Room - My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe
Infinity Mirrored Room - My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe
Artist
Yayoi Kusama
(Japanese, born 1929)
Date2018
MediumWood and glass mirror room with paper lanterns
Dimensions119 5/8 in. × 245 1/8 in. × 245 1/8 in. (303.8 × 622.6 × 622.6 cm)
ClassificationsInstallation
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2019.2
Accession number
2019.2
On View
On viewLabel TextYayoi Kusama wants to completely immerse viewers in her Infinity Mirror Rooms, spaces that envelope visitors in a kaleidoscopic experience. By lining the walls with mirrors, Kusama transforms the finite boundaries of this room into a limitless expanse. The effect can be a bit disorienting. My Heart is Dancing into the Universe appears to be filled with an endless amount of colorful lanterns and, as your reflection becomes part of the work, an infinite number of your own body as well.
Kusama often uses bright colors, shapes, and natural forms in her work, recalling hallucinations from her childhood surrounded in endless repetitions of dots, nets, and flowers. Kusama studied and worked in New York from 1958 to 1973. She often found herself among, or ahead of, the most famous avant-garde New York artists of the time.
