The Obliteration Room Seattle

She began to stretch the limits of her art.

The obliteration room seattle.

In a radical move that connects to participatory art kusama created the obliteration room in 2002. I want to live hidden in the world that lies midway between mystery and symbol. The obliteration room was fist displayed at the queensland art gallery in 2002 as an art project for children and in 2012 it was presented at tate modern. Kusama provides a white domestic interior of sofas tables chairs and everyday objects and visitors are invited to complete the work.

June 30 september 10 yayoi kusama. The white room works as a canvas for visitors its furniture and details blend in together as colorful dots take over. Michelle li tries out the obliteration room at the infinity mirrors exhibit at seattle art museum. Michelle li tries out the obliteration room at the infinity mirrors exhibit at seattle art museum.

The red and green and yellow dots might represent the circle of the earth or of the sun or moon or whatever you like the obliteration room 2002 present installed 2017. Yayoi kusama is one of japan s most important contemporary artists. As visitors enter the space they are each handed a set of brightly colored dots and invited to stick them to any surface they please. The obliteration room 2002 to present kusama wrote in her 2011 autobiography i thought of seattle as only the first step in my reckless journey so in the early 1960s she immersed herself in new york s riotous creative scene.

Infinity mirrored room love forever 1966 94. The obliteration room in kusama s the obliteration room the artist replicates a modern american living room and paints it entirely in white.