Yayoi Kusama's Playful 'Obliteration Room' Has Been a Hit for 20 Years. Here Are Three Surprising Facts You Might Not Know About It | Artnet News

The artist's dot-driven installation turns 20 years old in 2022.

. Courtesy of the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation/QAGOMA Photography. © Yayoi Kusama.

Picture this: a pristinely, even glaringly white room, filled with white chairs, white tables, white cabinets, and even white light fixtures. Now imagine that space transforming, one colorful dot by brilliantly colorful dot, over the course of days and weeks into a kind of living Pointillist environment so reverberatingly colorful that the eye bounces from one wall to the next.

The installation, which Kusama debuted in 2002, has been a hit with viewers for some 20 years. As part of the installation, visitors are given a sheet of colorful dots of various sizes and shades and encouraged to place the stickers wherever they like.

No symbol is more synonymous with Kusama than her dots, and while a polka dot may seem like a lighthearted graphic motif, for the artist the mark alludes directly to deeply personal, even overwhelming experiences. The artist says that her famed polka dots were first inspired by a childhood hallucination she experienced while looking at a tablecloth in her family home.

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