Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room – Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart (2024)

It is wrong to call this infinity but to left, right, front and behind, the room does appears to stretch, endlessly indeed. You’ll think it possible to fall through the floor, since the suggestion of infinitude is a gaping maw; just as the sky is no longer a limit but…

Corinna Spencer, Portrait of a Lady (2015)

There is something maddening about Corinna Spencer’s installation. Her 1,000 portraits have a compulsive, destructive streak which would surely destroy the mental equilibrium of any sitter. The lady in question is already disintegrating. Eyes look out from somewhere behind the face. The lipstick is smeared on quick, perhaps as if for a…