The Obliteration Room Dc

The white room works as a canvas for visitors its furniture and details blend in together as colorful dots take over.

The obliteration room dc.

Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. The obliteration room 2011 revisits the popular interactive children s project developed by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery s apt 2002. Infinity mirrors where there is indeed no shortage of dots from the colorful splash of the participatory obliteration room to the circus like installation dots. In the obliteration room yayoi kusama provides colorful dot stickers that visitors can use to eliminate the traces of the original white room through the act of communal obliteration but what.

In this reworked and enlarged installation an australian domestic environment is recreated in the gallery space complete with locally sourced furniture and ornamentation all of which has been. Taking the obliteration room as its centerpiece this catalog reveals in vivid large scale plates the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room with ceilings walls and furniture covered in myriad multicolored stickers put there by viewers over the course of the exhibition. The obliteration room was fist displayed at the queensland art gallery in 2002 as an art project for children and in 2012 it was presented at tate modern. Infinity mirrored room aftermath of obliteration of eternity 2009.