Even after speaking to the Deputy Director for Curatorial & Collections Development at the National Gallery Singapore, Russell Storer, and its Curator Dr Adele Tan we were still transfixed on the wonder that is Yayoi Kusama. Digging a little deeper online, here are eight more extraordinary facts about the Queen of Polka dots.
03 She started creating Infinity rooms as early as 1962
Her initial works used just LED lights, an immersive recreation of her hallucinations. Kusama began experimenting with mirrors in Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (1965), a small room surrounded by mirrors and filled with polka-dotted phalluses to create the illusion of vastness. Kusama continued with the use of mirrors for her Infinity Rooms. Her latest Infinity Room is All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), filled
