The Obliteration Room Yayoi Kusama

The obliteration room 2011 revisits the popular interactive children s project developed by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery s apt 2002.

The obliteration room yayoi kusama.

The 2017 installation coincides with the yayoi kusama. A particular piece was the obliteration room 2002 present that has more than what its looks convey. The japanese artist yayoi kusama transformed a completely white room including furniture into a spectacle featuring her signature dots helped by children who visited the exhibition over two. 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. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. The obliteration room 2002 present sponsored by santos glng and supported by ikea logan is an interactive work initially developed by senior japanese artist yayoi kusama in collaboration with the queensland art gallery as a children s project for apt2002. Life is the heart of a rainbow exhibition opening on 04 november 2017.

For kusama obliteration is a reflection on the experience of death and the potential of the afterlife. 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. Reworked and enlarged in 2011 for the gallery s yayoi kusama. 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.

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 painted completely white. Look now see forever exhibition at goma the work became a social media phenomenon when images of the progressive. The obliteration room new york s david zwirner art gallery was recently host to the give me love installation a collection by japanese artist yayoi kusama.