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Mirrors and flashing lights at Japanese artist's show in London

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Mirrors and coloured lights take centre stage at avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s new exhibition.Opening soon at London gallery, Victoria Miro, Kusama’s installation “EVERYDAY I PRAY FOR LOVE” offers colourful paintings, sculptures of women made of bronze and new &#x27;Infinity Mirrored Room - Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart’ - in which visitors walk amongst flashing lights.“Thousands of illuminated colours blinking at the speed of light - isn&#x27;t this the very illusion of life in our transient world,&quot; the 95-year-old artist said in statement.In an outside area is Kusama’s new stainless steel &#x27;‘Ladder to Heaven’&#x27; which is covered in polka dots, while inside there are 15-metre-long strips of stuffed fabric also covered in dots making up a display called &#x27;&#x27;Death of Nerves.’&#x27;Kusama, who is well known for her dot-covered art and pumpkin motifs, as well as the use of mirrors to create mystical &quot;Infinity Rooms&quot;, is one of the most successful living female artists.Her latest exhibition opens to the public September 25 and runs until November 2, 2024. - Report from Reuters

Mirrors and coloured lights take centre stage at avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s new exhibition.

Mirrors and coloured lights take centre stage at avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s new exhibition.