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Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors exhibit opened at the Hirshhorn Museum Thursday. The exhibit includes six infinity rooms made of mirrored walls.
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s latest exhibit’s other-worldly wonderland is bound to fill your Instagram feeds.
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors exhibit, which opens at the Hirshhorn Thursday, lets visitors explore the evolution of the celebrated Japanese artist’s hypnotic Infinity Mirror rooms along with the paintings and sculptures that inspired them.
Melissa Chiu, the director of the Hirshhorn, said this will be the first exhibition to showcase more than six decades of Kusama’s avant-garde and surrealist style, spanning from two-dimensional drawings to interactive exhibits to performance art.
“Her multi-genre approach, we think, is a very 21st century approach,” Chiu said. “There is a great consistency in her works.”
The exhibit is a full sensory journey that begins with an arrangement of whimsical paintings and sculptures speckled with countless polka dots. Many of Kusama’s works use the repeating shapes and dots to create a world with no beginning and no end.
The exhibit includes six of Kusama’s famous “infinity rooms” made of mirrored walls. A visitor’s reflection is echoed through the room by the mirrors, making viewers part of the art.
One of the most striking rooms, “Dots Obsession – Love Transformed into Dots” features Kusama’s signature polka dots plastered on massive, bubblegum-pink beach balls hanging from the ceiling.
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