Review
Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern costs £10 for four minutes in two rooms – but it’s worth it
4/5
The 92-year-old Japanese artist’s Infinity Mirror Rooms exhibition is an emotional plunge into competing visions of the afterlife
17 May 2021 • 1:42pm
It’s like looking out from the trunk of a colossal Christmas tree: detail from Filled with the Brilliance of Life, Yayoi Kusama, 2011
One moment, you’re standing in a gallery at Tate Modern. White walls, wooden floor, solemn hush. The usual. But the next? Clunk. A sliding door shuts, sealing you in a darkened mirrored chamber, like Scaramanga’s funhouse in The Man with the Golden Gun. Just above head height, an ornate crystal chandelier slowly revolves within a transparent hexagonal box. The sort of thing you’d expect to encounter either at Versailles or in a two-bit Vegas casino, it is reflected, seemingly endlessly, on every side. Check out all these hypnotic, kaleidoscopic patterns. It’s like hitting the ja
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