Infinity Mirror Room 1965

Mirrors gave her the opportunity to create infinite planes in her installations and she would continue to use them in later.

Infinity mirror room 1965.

From louisiana museum of modern art yayoi kusama infinity mirror room phalli s field floor show 1965. Kusama s infinity mirror room a large scale mirrored installation was part of her solo exhibition floor show which opened at the castellane gallery new york in november 1965. The work kusama s first infinity mirror room finished in 1965 and re created in 2016 places the viewer in a grove of crimson spotted tuber forms reflected in surrounding mirrors an alice in. The floor of the mirror lined room was lined in white phallic blobs covered in red polka dots.

In yayoi kusama installations from that time included infinity mirror room phalli s field 1965 a mirrored room whose floors were covered with hundreds of stuffed phalli that had been painted with red dots. Kusama posed placid on the floor in a red body suit. Shifting between pop like and surreal minimal and metaphorical figurative and abstract psychotic and erotic it seems to embody what the 1960s were about while at the same time rejecting the prevailing aesthetics of its time. Created in 1965 for an exhibition at the de castellane gallery in new york i infinity mirror room phalli s field or floor show i marked a major turning point in kusama s practice.