Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro Gallery: Immersive Mirror Rooms

Yayoi Kusama recently created three immersive mirror rooms for the Victoria Miro Gallery. The exhibtion displayed sculptures, paintings and installations that were all made by Kusama specifically for the exhibtion within the last year and featured plenty of her iconic pumpkins!

“Kusama finds solace in pumpkins – a motif she has returned to throughout her career”

Our favourite room was the pumpkin filled installation titled All the Eternal Love I have for Pumpkins. The room was incredibly immersive, with the entire space covered with mirros and filled with yellow and black pumpkins so that the installation appeared to stretch on into infinity. Touching on the obsessive, Kusama’s repetitve use of patterns and shapes stem from past psychiatric hallucinations.

Leading to All the Eternal Love I have for Pumpkins are three bronze pumpkin sculptures with black circles. Kusama finds solace in pumpkins – a motif she has returned to throughout her career – as they have provided her with a source of inspiration and comfort since childhood.

Downstairs was another exploration of Kusama’s Mirror Infinity Rooms, this time a darker installation titled The Chandelier of Grief. It features a rotating, gothic chandelier which dramatically casts reflections when hit by bursts of light.