While you’re not looking

The envelop­ing and vio­lently red instal­la­tion of Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obses­sion, imme­di­ately caught my eye to The Hay­ward Gallery’s newly opened exhi­bi­tion, Walk­ing in My Mind: Adven­ture into the artist imag­i­na­tion. As the nam­ing aptly con­ceived, this col­lec­tion reflects the artists’ con­scious mind. But isn’t that the nature of art and this cura­tion an overt state­ment of self-indulgence?

This inter­na­tional affair gath­ers Charles Avery (UK), Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzer­land), Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Bo Chris­t­ian Lars­son (Swe­den), Mark Man­ders (The Nether­lands), Yoshit­omo Nara (Japan), Jason Rhoades (USA), Pip­i­lotti Rist (Switzer­land), Chi­haru Shiota (Japan) and Keith Tyson (UK). The instal­la­tions appeared gen­er­ally impres­sive at first sight but only a few was matured enough to elo­quently con­vey recher­ché mes­sages — not only in visual terms but spa­cial and psy­cho­log­i­cal — leav­ing a last memory.

Source: Art Daily