✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we send newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Support Us Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Shopping
  • CW SHOPS
  • Support Us
  • Get Started
  • Tickets
  • CW SHOPS
Get the Best of London Life, Culture and Style
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
Visual Arts

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms, Tate Modern ★★★★★

18 May 21 – 12 Jun 22, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

As we emerge from lockdown, Kusama's dazzling power remains intact. Her ability to transport us into the heart of her obsessional and mysterious imagination is both welcome and exhilarating.

By Eleonore Dresch on 17/5/2021

89 CW readers are interested
Yayoi Kusama, Chandelier of Grief. Tate Modern
Yayoi Kusama, Chandelier of Grief. Tate Modern
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms, Tate Modern 4 Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms, Tate Modern Emily Spicer
Tate Modern was due to celebrate its 20th birthday last May with an exhibit of two Yayoi Kusama's infinity rooms. Then the pandemic happened.


Fast forward to 2021, and the exhibition opens as we emerge from lockdown still unsure about our feelings. Yet Kusama's dazzling power remains intact. Her ability to transport us into the heart of her obsessional and mysterious imagination is both welcome and exhilarating.


The exhibition, which allows us to delve into some documentation of the artist's early work as well as a brand-new sculpture, is for most of us a chance to experience two of Kusama's major installations, kaleidoscopes of mirrors and lights.


Entering this first installation, entitled Chandelier of Grief, feels like disappearing into a world that is a complete contrast to the one we were just in, a world where space goes on forever. We are invited to walk around and lose ourselves in an amazing landscape of rotating crystal candelabras that seemingly recede into infinity. It is an optical illusion in which we find ourselves at the centre.





Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life, one of Kusama's largest, and most breathtaking works to date, was created for her retrospective at Tate Modern in 2012 and contributed to propelling her to fame.


The room is lined with mirrors and surrounded by a shallow pool of water. Tiny LED lights are suspended from the ceiling at different heights. Entering the Brilliance of Life feels like entering a galaxy of stars that constantly change colours.





After months spent often alone and online, the sheer physical experience of these installation feels exhilarating. And even the anti-selfie generation will find it hard to resist the appeal of being infinitely reflected in Kusama's enchanting world. As a mirror to our lockdown introspective endeavours, her work seems strangely timely.


What Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms, Tate Modern
Where Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG | MAP
Nearest tube Southwark (underground)
When 18 May 21 – 12 Jun 22, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Price £Returns
Website Click here for more information



Most popular

Things to do in London this weekend: 3–5 February
Things to do in London this weekend: 3–5 February
Gemma Arterton in Funny Woman, Sky Max (Photo: Sky)
What to watch on TV this week
London exhibitions on now — Peter Doig, Courtauld Gallery
Top 15 exhibitions on now in London

Editor's Picks

10 inspirational exhibitions opening this May
The best art exhibitions in London: May 2021
Yayoi Kusama, 2020. Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki. © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, David Zwirner, and Victoria Miro
Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Victoria Miro
Credit: Auguste Rodin Study for The Think er , 1881 Musée Rodin, S.01168
The Making of Rodin, Tate Modern
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
89

Kusama

Tate

immersive

You might like

  • Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, V&A. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum

    Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, V&A review ★★★★★

  • Arctic: Culture and Climate, British Museum. Umiaq and north wind during spring whaling by Kiliii Yuyan

    Arctic: Culture and Climate, British Museum

  • Credit: Auguste Rodin Study for The Think er , 1881 Musée Rodin, S.01168

    The Making of Rodin, Tate Modern

  • Yayoi Kusama, 2020. Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki. © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, David Zwirner, and Victoria Miro

    Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Victoria Miro

  • Tracey Emin/ Edvard Munch exhibition, Royal Academy

    Tracey Emin/ Edvard Munch exhibition, Royal Academy ★★★★★

  • Stephen Friedman & London House of Modernity

    Stephen Friedman and the London House of Modernity Review ★★★★★



  • The Culture Whisper team
  • Support Us
  • Tickets
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×