A new Infinity Mirror Room by Yayoi Kusama takes center stage in London

A new experience in an Infinity Mirror Room by Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, Japan, 1929): you can experience it until November 2, 2024 at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Indeed, in the artist’s fourteenth solo exhibition at the London gallery, titled Yayoi Kusama: Every day I pray for love, the protagonist is the new Infinity Mirrored Room - Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart: animmersive work that transports visitors into a world of reflections and pulsating lights. This hexagonal room features a ceiling of colored LEDs arranged in a concentric pattern that creates an infinite honeycomb effect, with reflections extending infinitely thanks to the mirrored surfaces. In the center of the space, a large suspended sphere of mirrors represents the “heart” of the work. The installation explores two elements central to Kusama’s practice: the mirror and the sphere, which have recurred in her work since the 1960s, particularly in iconic works such as Infinity Mirrored Room - Love Forever and Narcissus Garden, both from 1966. The installation invites visitors to immerse themselves in a sensory environment, where perception is amplified. The interplay of light, reflections and infinite perspectives offers an enveloping experience that prompts reflection on themes of infinity, repetition and the self within a seemingly limitless space.

The exhibition also features works from the artist’s latest series of paintings and sculptures in the gallery and garden: among them, Death of Nerves (2022), composed of numerous multicolored stitched and padded elements resembling tendrils or a nervous system, here suspended like a waterfall; Ladder to Heaven (2024), a vertical sculpture nearly four meters high and, composed of mirror-polished stainless steel, reflecting its surroundings and offering the illusion, via two circular panels at the top and at the base of the staircase, of infinite ascent and descent; The Moment of Regeneration (2024), a group of red and black upholstered and stitched fabric forms that seem to emerge organically from the floor, extending upward and branching outward in a circular configuration and reminiscent of a group of polka-dotted trees in a primeval forest.

Also on display in the garden are three new sculptures, Every Day I Pray for Love - Women, Every Day I Pray for Love - Women with Necklaces and Every Day I Pray for Love - Women’s Profiles (2024), which are derived directly from the images found in Kusama’s Every Day I Pray for Love. These sculptures, the first of their kind, begin a new series of bronze works.

Image: Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki. Courtesy of the artist, Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. © YAYOI KUSAMA

A new Infinity Mirror Room by Yayoi Kusama takes center stage in London

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