Into the Infinite: Yayoi Kusama's Mirror Rooms Take Over Tate Modern

Step inside, the doors close, and the world dissolves into endless light. In June 2021 Tate Modern opened a focused show built around two of Yayoi Kusama's 'Infinity Mirror Rooms' — immersive chambers in which mirrored walls multiply tiny lights or rotating chandeliers into a seemingly boundless universe.

'Infinity Mirrored Room — Filled with the Brilliance of Life' and 'Chandelier of Grief' became two of the most photographed, most longed-for experiences in London. Tickets sold out again and again.

Now in her nineties, Kusama has spent a lifetime turning obsession — dots, repetition, infinity — into transcendence. The show was meant to last a year. Demand kept it open until April 2024.

Image: “Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin, 2015 (37171698741)” — art_inthecity from Montréal, CA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.