Yayoi Kusama's 'Obliteration Room' For 'Look Now, See Forever'

Since the fifties, 82-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has been unusually relevant, her sales among the highest for living female artists (bar none in 2008). Now Kasuma's latest installation, on display at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia until March 12, is invading corners of the internet normally reserved for twenty-somethings.

"Look Now, See Forever" deals in stylized kid imagery, with the the star installation a space called "The Obliteration Room." The room starts out like a page out of Dwell -- painted and furnished all in white, until kids armed with thousands of colored stickers descend. The result, which you'll see develop as you click through the images below, is the thoroughest expression of a plastic ball pit we can imagine. For more images from "Look Now, See Forever," head to the Queensland Art Gallery's site.

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[Tinki - bot]

12:21 AM on 01/09/2012

By the way.. this was aimed at kids (big and small!) and if you could have seen all the smiles and heard all the laughter in that room you would not think this was a waste.

[Tinki - bot]

12:15 AM on 01/09/2012

I was there last week! So much fun...
Some clever little muppets made worms, smiley faces and even an octopus out of the different coloured and sized stickers. You had to look closely to pick out all the details amongst that riot of colour.

[madcityy]

02:26 PM on 01/08/2012

HUH>??????????????????????

[lynninny]

08:55 AM on 01/08/2012

This is so beautiful.

[southingtonian]

06:03 AM on 01/08/2012

This reminds me of the studies done that show human crowds tend to behave like liquids or gasses.

[maveet]

06:50 PM on 01/06/2012

HP: FIRST TIME BIG SCREEN HAS WORKED!! Finally, the images are not miniscule, and loading is easy. Whatever's different, please REPEAT it! thx.

And, thanks for this great art story.

[IvanandLucy]

03:21 PM on 01/06/2012

This is exactly what it is like having children come into your house!

[JimsObie]

05:35 AM on 01/06/2012

And you wonder why adults can't understand children. Well look what's in there minds. YIKES!!!

[Sundae Driver]

05:07 AM on 01/06/2012

Jeesh...I can just imagine living in that "white room." I'd be feeling cold 24/7.

[Sundae Driver]

05:10 AM on 01/06/2012

Yikes...and now after looking at the "makeover," it would be like living in a spew bucket. (How long would would stay sane living in that environment? LOL.)

[Norman Dube]

01:36 PM on 01/07/2012

What is sane?

[gemzenith]

08:30 AM on 01/09/2012

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. "-john lennon

[VictoriousDay]

04:16 AM on 01/06/2012

Looks like someone's 64 Pack of Crayola Crayons exploded. Too much for me, hurts my eyes. I prefer the white, and I'm more likely to stain the white. I guess one upside to the colors is if you spill something, you coulld just say, "Oh it adds to the room"

[Minnielee]

03:56 AM on 01/06/2012

It was a mess both ways but after the "redo", you would have a nervous breakdown.

[neosmartchick]

03:07 AM on 01/06/2012

That gave me a headache.

[Tugud2btroo]

02:49 AM on 01/06/2012

Looks like throw up!!

[prophetesss54704]

02:40 AM on 01/06/2012

does not make sense or purpose

[raynaysride]

10:48 AM on 01/09/2012

it's not supposed too

[niter36]

01:09 AM on 01/06/2012

5 minutes in this room and you can end up in a straight jacket LOL