The story behind it is that as a young girl the artist started seeing the world through a screen of dots which covered everything she looked at.
The obliteration room auckland.
1929 matsumoto japan a stark white room depicting items typically found in a new zealand is the canvas for this interactive experience.
Each person is handed a sheet of stickers alls dots.
More than 130 000 visitors have applied over 2 6 million dots in the room since last december.
Once the exhibition closes on april 2 the dots will be scraped off and recycled.
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.
Originally developed by yayoi kusama for the queensland art gallery s apt 2002.
Welcome to the obliteration room.
With the familiar characteristics of a typical aotearoa new zealand home the obliteration room at auckland art gallery encourages visitors especially children to experience and engage with the artwork with little or no prompting.
Avant garde artist yayoi kusama s the obliteration room has one more week left at auckland art gallery.
Asia pacific triennial of contemporary art the obliteration room has toured to london buenos aires rio de janiero brasilia sao paulo mexico city shanghai south korea.
With the familiar characteristics of a typical aotearoa new zealand home the obliteration room at auckland art gallery encourages visitors especially children to experience and engage with the.
An artistic concept by japanese artist yayoi kusama presented at the auckland art gallery until the 2nd of april 2018.