Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Room will reopen at SFMOMA

Visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will have another chance to indulge their senses in one of Yayoi Kusama’s mirrored Infinity Rooms as “Dreaming of the Sphericity of the Earth, I Would Offer My Love” is set to reopen this weekend.

The installation, included with general admission to the museum, will be on view long-term beginning Saturday, June 22, and will also be open to visitors during regular free days at SFMOMA.

Originally featured in the 94-year-old Japanese artist’s first solo exhibition in Northern California, which closed on May 28, “Dreaming of the Sphericity of the Earth, I Would Offer My Love” is now expected remain open until January.

Although Kusama has been creating mirrored environments since the 1960s, immersive art installations that produce infinite reflections of lights and shapes have recently gained popularity as a backdrop for social media images. Despite an earlier controversy over her past writings, for which she apologized, the SFMOMA exhibition attracted 2,000 visitors per day.

After Kusama apologized for some writing perceived as anti-Black last fall, SFMOMA director Christopher Bedford defended the museum’s role in supporting artists and continuing the exhibition.

“We think this is an opportunity… to disclose and also condemn his expression from the late ’60s while presenting the work in the present,” Bedford told the Chronicle, adding that the institution is committed to “ truth in interpretation. », no censorship.