Kusama Obliteration Room

The obliteration room 2002 present is a family friendly and participatory installation by one of the world s most popular well loved artists yayoi kusama b.

Kusama obliteration room.

Looking like a typical american house in the exterior with generic furniture and fittings in the interior it captures the visitor with a. Artist yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as an entirely white space furnished as a monochrome living room which people are then invited t. Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface. In this reworked and enlarged installation an australian domestic environment is recreated in the gallery space complete with locally sourced furniture and ornamentation all of which has been.

Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. Yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Avant garde japanese artist yayoi kusama was an influential figure in the postwar new york art scene staging provocative happenings and exhibiting works such as her infinity nets hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots and physical representations of the idea of infinity. Beginning as a stark white interior it encourages you to transform the space of our creative learning centre by saturating it with a rainbow of brightly coloured dots.

Narcissus garden an installation of hundreds of mirrored balls earned kusama notoriety at the 1966 venice.