First Monograph on Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room — Phalli's Field

Jo Applin has authored the first monograph on Yayoi Kusama's landmark installation Infinity Mirror Room — Phalli's Field (1965), published by Afterall. The book examines the work's significance within Kusama's 'obsessional art' and its relationship to contemporary theory and artists like Lee Lozano, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse. The installation, first exhibited in New York, features mirrors and hundreds of polka-dotted fabric protrusions, creating an absorbing parallel world. Applin discusses themes of environments, 'eccentric abstraction', play, sexuality, and softness. The work is described as challenging and unclassifiable, shifting between Pop, Surreal, Minimal, and metaphorical registers.