Artist field note

Yayoi Kusama

Infinity, obsession and the self.

Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama
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Pumpkin

1994

Dots and bulbous form turn a humble vegetable into one of contemporary art's most recognizable motifs.

The five in one idea

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