Walking into one of Yayoi Kusama’s art installations is like falling into a black hole, being splintered into a million little pieces and coming out on the other side wholly intact.
The 89-year-old artist is one of the art world’s most unlikely superstars. While living in a Tokyo mental health facility for the last 40 years, she checks herself out each day to create brilliant and immersive works of art in her studio before returning each night.
You can catch a sliver of Kusama’s wildly popular work when Infinity Mirrors comes to the Cleveland Museum of Art July 7-Sept. 30 with seven LED-lit reflective rooms.
The exhibit includes Where the Lights in My Heart Go, a Cleveland-exclusive work in which a reflective cube is created using only natural light.
“These rooms are mind-boggling,” says Reto Thuring, the museum’s curator of contemporary art. “It’s a multidimensional experience where you, as a visitor, are really a part of the works.”
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Reflect On An Artistic Journey At Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrors
The Japanese artist's work has become famous worldwide.
