Kusama - Infinity

This documentary is about an artist's journey of expressing her art.  Today her art has become a phenomenon.

She dealt with being overlooked in the art world because it was male dominated at that time.  She dealt with other famous artists copying her style, including Andy Warhol.  She attempted suicide twice.  She lives in a psychiatric hospital, and is able to continue creating art.

Moving back to Japan in the Seventies, much was made of Kusama eventually housing herself in a psychiatric hospital. But I’ve often found that it matters less where you lay your head each night than what you do with it when you’re awake. Kusama’s paint-splattered jeans, her continual need to create, and her singular vision are concepts that Lenz gets through with her very loving film. Kusama’s 1989 retrospective secured her an altar among those white male artists, and she is now one of the top-selling living artists in the world. But it seems a little too late for this fierce presence, a woman who had her vision stolen multiple times but still carried on, driven by a need to create these wonderful worlds into a world that often neglected her. And the irony is not lost on her. Nor should it be on you.

Kusama Infinity Trailer


A notable review of the documentary

Interview with Kusama