At the age of 97, one of the most brilliant contemporary artists—Japanese Yayoi Kusama—passed away. She voluntarily spent the majority of her life in a psychiatric clinic, yet she exerted a profound influence on the world of fashion and art.
A Japanese artist who transformed her hallucinations into one of the most recognizable visual languages of the 20th and 21st centuries. Dots, pumpkins, infinite mirror rooms—all of this originated from obsessive visions that haunted her since childhood.
From the late 1950s, she worked in New York, staging radical performances, and from 1977, she voluntarily resided in a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo. It was there, never setting her brush down, that she created the majority of what the world knows today.
«The only way I found to manage my illness is by continuing to create art.»
