Yayoi Kusama (b. March 22 1929)

Kusama's exhibition, currently on at Tate Modern in London, from the 9th of February to June the 5th 2012.



I have not visited yet but can not wait to be intoxicated by her somewhat cheerful and yet claustrophobic, lonely, dotted world.



Voluntarily living in a mental institution in her native Japan since the late 1970s, Kusama is living proof that yes, art can save you. Or at least it allows one to create a world of your own making juxtaposed to the world we cannot completely control or comprehend.



Kusama left Japan for the first time in 12 years especially to attend the opening of her retrospective at the Tate Modern in February 2012.