Textiles in Context p.3

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room 1998

ART or Design

Temporary or PERMANENT

LARGE SCALE or Small Scale

TRANSFORM and/or Define and/or FORM

IMMERSIVE and/or Distant

PATTERN and/or COLOUR and/or REPETITION and/or SHAPE

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Kusama applies some of the language of textiles to her infinity mirrored room. Concerns of pattern, colour, and repletion dominate the work; these are the tools of the surface designer particularly in printed textiles.

Repetitive elements help create an immersive environment. The repetitions of the same dot motifs on walls, ceilings and 3D forms means the viewer is completely embedded into the environment and print. Kusama uses textiles as a substrate onto which she adds colour and pattern to generate the obsessive environment she seeks.