Adquirido con fondos de la Sociedad de Arte del Estado de Carolina del Norte (legado de Robert F. Phifer) y el legado de Carlyle Adams, con financiación adicional de James Keith Brown y Eric Diefenbach, y el Dr. W. Kent Davis y el Dr. Carlos García-Vélez
Among Kusama’s most well-known and celebrated works are her Infinity Mirror Rooms, which are mirror-lined kaleidoscopic works of art with seemingly endless reflections that create illusions of infinite space. LIGHT OF LIFE is one of her most recent works, made in 2018.
This mirrored, hexagon-shaped box has three round openings at different heights, with one opening on every other side, that invite viewers to look inside a “room.” The view reveals many small light bulbs that constantly change colors in a mesmerizing, hallucinatory sequence that is approximately two minutes long, multiplied by mirrors that line the inside of the box. Viewers’ faces are reflected in the mirrors inside the box, and the reflections of color-changing light bulbs are repeated in a dazzling and slightly disorienting light show.
Thousands of illuminated colors blinking at the speed of light – isn’t this the very illusion of Life in our transient world? In the darkness that follows a single flash of light, our souls are lured into the black silence of death.
Yayoi Kusama
tags: óptica, física, experiencia, cambio, ciclo, movimiento, percepción, juego, tecnología
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