In what’s being called the next Rain Room for New York, eccentric Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is showing off her newest installations at David Zwirner gallery. Called Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away and Love Is Calling, expect these to be the must-visit installations this fall! (Translation: Expect long lines.)
In Infinity Mirrored Room, hundreds of multi-coloured LED lights, suspended at different heights and dangling from floor to ceiling, transform a room into what feels like eternity. The cube-shaped, mirror-panelled room has a shallow reflecting pool as its floor and the lights flicker on and off in a strobe-like effect. Though similar to the ones Kusama has shown previously — Infinity Mirror Room at the Tate Modern and Fireflies on the Water at the Whitney Museum of Art — this one was made especially for this exhibition and still promises the viewer a wonderfully surreal experience.
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In Love is Calling, a darkened, mirrored room is illuminated by inflatable, tentacle-like forms — covered in the artist’s characteristic polka dots — that extend from the floor and ceiling, gradually changing colours.
Not only is this a visual experience, it’s an auditory one, too. A sound recording of Kusama reciting a love poem in Japanese plays continuously. This installation was shown in Tokyo earlier this year as part of a group exhibition but it ‘s the very first time it’s been shown in the United States.
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The full exhibition, called I Who Have Arrived In Heaven, spans the gallery’s three consecutive locations and features, along with these installations, 27 new large-scale paintings. The exhibition will be showing from now till December 21, 2013. What a fun place to take a selfie!
Alice Yoo is the founder of My Modern Metropolis, a blog about art and design where this post originally appeared.