Three Artists Reflect on Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room

Louisiana Channel invited three artists to comment on Yayoi Kusama's iconic installation "Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli's Field" (1965-2016). The work, an endless mirrored chamber filled with polka-dotted phallic soft sculptures, continues to provoke strong reactions. Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (b. 1970) described the experience as a journey toward awareness and a loss of reality. Astrid Svangren (b. 1972) found it ambivalent, oscillating between the infantile and the intimidating, with a simultaneous sense of stillness and movement toward infinity. Alexander Tovborg (b. 1973) felt frustrated, as the work prevents the viewer from grasping a protean self. Kusama, who has voluntarily lived in a Tokyo psychiatric hospital since 1977, was the only figurative artist on Time's 2016 list of the 100 most influential people. The video was produced by Louisiana Channel, the media arm of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.