A robot of Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, installed at Louis Vuitton’s flagship store in New York City
A robot of Yayoi Kusama has been installed in the window of Louis Vuitton’s New York City store. The installation supports Kusama and LV’s second creative collaboration. 93-year-old Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist and is considered one of the most preeminent and influential artists of our time.
Kusama has strong ties to New York City. She moved to NYC in 1958 and lived and worked here for 15 years. In a 2012 interview with NY Mag, when asked if she thinks she would have surpassed Andy Warhol had she stayed in New York, she replied, “I had already exceeded him during my stay in New York in the sixties. He lived near me and appropriated my ideas, only he was too late because I had already realized them. We don’t hear his name now so much in Japan.”
Kusama is known to use her art to address mental health issues and has referred to her work as art-medicine. “I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live,” she said previously.
