Kusama and her infinite mirrored room which we could not see...

9:21 a.m.

For museums to have long waiting lines outside on certain successful exhibitions is quite common, but for a gallery, to have a 2-hour-wait just to see one installation is hard to believe. We question ourselves if it's worthy to spend those precious hours of our lives, in winter, outdoors, to enter a mirrored room just for 2 seconds (or as long as it takes to shoot a selfie). For the rest of the Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love exhibition, which occupies two floors of the David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea, no wait is required.

In one of the galleries we find a series of unknown small paintings in which Kusama depicted something similar to human cells. On the floor of that same gallery there's a group of sculptures similar to mercury drops, distributed unevenly as a constellation of amorphous figures in stainless steel. We were allowed to walk around the installation, reinforcing the concept of perpetuity and infinity, always present in Kusama's works.

Clouds, by Yayoi Kusama (2019)

Materials: stainless steel with patina and wax / variable dimensions

Pumpkin, by Yayoi Kusama (2019)

Material: painted fiberglass

Of course her pumpkin sculptures are also here, perfected in materials and craftsmanship, which the Japanese artist has been making since 1994. It is believed that the hallucinations that haunt Yayoi appear in these pumpkins and the never-ending reproduction of them helps her deal with the anguish of her mental disorder.

The exhibition is completed in the upper floor with more sculptures and an infinite mirrored staircase.