Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at Tate Modern is the sold out hot ticket in art right now. Her trippy immersive worlds transport the viewer into a realm of infinite lights, reflections, dots and colours which reach around the participant in all directions. After a minute of letting go and just being present in the space, you are lost in the illusion that you are weightless, submersed in her vision, literally floating on her synapses.
Now 92, Kusama has experienced hallucinatory auras, often consisting of dots which would become one of her signature motifs, since she was ten years old. She has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital since the 1970s. Her entire oeuvre is borne of her unique lived experience as a Disabled person.
DR UK's Media and Communications manager Anna Morell looks at how Kusama uses her impairments to inform her art for it to become a transformative experience for its audiences. Read our blog here.