Yayoi Kusama - Life is the Heart of the Rainbow

Hello!

This will be a photo journal of my trip to the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at National Gallery

Pretty much the entire exhibition is here so if you missed it no worries 😇

Children's Biennale x Yayoi Kusama

A colourful space, completely decorated by the public

Yayoi Kusama actually had this idea of covering the world in polka dots - perhaps to make the dim world more vibrant and vivacious, and perhaps at the same time to create a safe haven for herself. 

Entrance to the Gallery

I truly love how they decided to cover the walkway to the Gallery with this reflective silver and red polka dotted design to really pave the way to the exhibit.

Extra shots before we enter the exhibits ~

Gallery store had a really cool outlay of merch as well.

 

I remember the piece on the right to be called the Death of a Nerve Cell - the artist seemed to have a really huge obsession with human biology, as you will see later.

The sculpture to the left was actually a really interesting take on Grecian / Roman statues with her own twist to it. To the right would be one of her famous pumpkin paintings, although for some reason she loved it when the things around her were morphed into rather absurd forms.

One of my personal faves were these mirrored installations where you peered in to take a photo of the interior - the artist rally loved mirrors and reflections and played with it alot to create "infinite" patterns, as you can see in these photos (above and below)

Not to mention the infinity mirror room with its lights were by far my favourite.

She really had a weird obsession with humans and the human body - these are photos of some of the works from the 18+ section that are a tad more family friendly to view.

And these are some other colourful renditions she has. For some reason I feel as though they're crafted from nightmares that she has but oh well...

There was also a room that was completely monochromatic and made use of human faces to form patterns. It was really interesting looking at the variations and how she played on thick and thin lines for the seemingly same human faces to give rise to some fun 3D effects

This room full of metal balls was rather odd to me and we weren't really allowed to squat down to take photos as people were afraid the ornaments would be knocked over (safety hazard I suppose) since the balls were pretty much balanced by a small ring of plastic alone.


Overall this was a really fun, freaky but breathtaking exhibition! It was my first time at National Gallery but I would definitely visit it again to look at other fun exhibits :)

That's all! Thank you for reading :)

Love,
Khione