Film
Kusama – Infinity
- Director
- Heather Lenz
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 78 mins
Now the top-selling female artist in the world, Yayoi Kusama was an underdog with everything stacked against her: the trauma of growing up in Japan during World War II, life in a dysfunctional family that discouraged her creative ambitions, sexism and racism in the art establishment, and mental illness in a culture where that was particularly shameful
Heather Lenz‘s enjoyable documentary debut traces Kusama’s eventful journey and recent rediscovery, thanks in part to social media. “Skeptics would say that a sizable number of Kusama’s new fans don’t care about art nearly as much as they do about finding a novel backdrop for their next selfie,” observed the Hollywood Reporter, “and if that backdrop is a Kusama Infinity Room that multiplies the Insta-narcissist’s image over and over into the horizon, so much the better.”
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