Artist field note

Yayoi Kusama

Infinity, obsession and the self.

Accumulation No. 1 by Yayoi Kusama — Example from the series
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Accumulation No. 1

1962

A chair is covered with sewn phallic forms. Domestic furniture becomes funny, obsessive and unsettling.

The five in one idea

Kusama turned repetition into a way of losing - and finding - the self.