Artworks

Yayoi Kusama produced countless self-portraits throughout her career. Images of herself as a young girl, as an aging woman, or in endlessly repeated profiles — many of these works consistently placed “Yayoi Kusama” herself at their center.

This work, however, occupies a singular position among them. What appears here is not a face, but an oval void suspended within darkness, woven from innumerable delicate lines. Resembling a net, a membrane, or even skin, its surface seems to pulse quietly through obsessive repetition, drawing the viewer inward.

Though a self-portrait, the work simultaneously moves toward the dissolution of the self. Here, Kusama’s lifelong pursuit of “self-obliteration” emerges in an exceptionally abstract and distilled form.