'The dilemma is our inability to understand. The dilemma is so alien to us that it smells of insanity' - Paul McCarthy
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| A version of the installation 'Narcissus garden', by Yayoi Kusama 2016 |
Yayoi Kusama is an artist that has inspired my artistic practice and especially my BA-piece 'Revived Beginnings'.
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| A version of the installation 'Dots obsession' (1997) |
Kusama changes her expression in
changing cultural context, but her themes remain the same: expansive patterns
of dots and accumulations of identical elements materializing visions of
infinity and self-obliteration, the fantasy of a total dissolution of the
boundary between the individual and the surrounding world.
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| The painting: 'Infinity-nets' 1958 |
The meaning of
Kusama’s work is not unified and deep but centreless and diffuse like the
patterns that obsess her: dots, grids, nets – ornament on ornament… In her
work, infinity is a cosmic space, a spiritual idea and a psychological abyss,
and the attraction to this great nothing is
both pleasurable and full of anxiety.
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| The collage 'A Nest' 1981 |
She describes her art as both
a product of and a defense against her illness. Kusama describes her work as an
obsessive power that both springs from and is a shield against a psychological
abyss.
A strong performative current
runs through Kusama’s collages, as the emotional relationship between artist,
work and viewer is constantly opened up and shifted in new directions.
Read:
'Perform' by Jens Hoffmann and Joan Jonas 2005
'Yayoi Kusama In Infinity', p. 8,11,16. Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Marie Laurberg and Michael Juul Holm, 2015
'Perform' by Jens Hoffmann and Joan Jonas 2005
'Yayoi Kusama In Infinity', p. 8,11,16. Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Marie Laurberg and Michael Juul Holm, 2015
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