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Yayoi kusama s interactive obliteration room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Beginning as a stark white interior it encourages you to transform the space of our creative learning centre by saturating it with a rainbow of brightly coloured dots. The museum will continue to upload images of the evolving space until the exhibition closes in march. Perhaps you ve always dreamed of visiting a yayoi kusama exhibit.

The obliteration room 2002 present sponsored by santos glng and supported by ikea logan is an interactive work initially developed by senior japanese artist yayoi kusama in collaboration with the queensland art gallery as a children s project for apt2002. Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art. 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. Look now see forever exhibition at goma the work became a social media phenomenon when images of the progressive.

Reworked and enlarged in 2011 for the gallery s yayoi kusama. Rabbit town s patrico sticker room. Collaboration between yayoi kusama and queensland art gallery commissioned queensland art gallery australia gift of the artist through. Obliteration room is the first interactive project by the artist that includes visitor participation as part of its realization.

An all white room complete with furniture where guests can obliterate the space with colorful circular stickers. When the obliteration room was created by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery it was for the purposes of engagement with children. Avant garde japanese artist yayoi kusama was an influential figure in the postwar new york art scene staging provocative happenings and exhibiting works such as her infinity nets hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots and physical representations of the idea of infinity. Well rabbit town has the patrico sticker room their own version of the obliteration room.

Although the target audience is children the work has the ability to relate to teenagers and adults alike and i think that says something about the nature of engagement and how museums can use this to its advantage. Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface.