Yayoi Kusama's Obliteration Room is back. This time, it's a house
The Obliteration Room was developed at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2002 for the Asia Pacific Triennial: an all-white space that changes over time as visitors add thousands of colourful dot stickers to walls, floor and furniture.
Seen and loved by more than 5 million gallery visitors around the world in the intervening years, the piece is making a triumphant return to Brisbane in the Gallery of Modern Art's Wonderstruck exhibition.
QAGOMA senior program officer at the Children's Art Centre, Laura Mudge, said the Obliteration Room this time is taking over a larger space that replicates the rooms of a Queenslander cottage.
'This is a work a lot of people have strong memories about,' she said.
'We can't think of a better example of the delight we see audiences experience than when they become collaborators and stick the dots on the walls.'
Wonderstruck is a free exhibition for all ages that draws upon works already in the QAGOMA collection.
Unusually, it has been curated not by curatorial staff but by Mudge and the gallery's head of public engagement, Tamsin Cull.
The emphasis is on work that is both crowd-pleasing and interactive.
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