Visitors queue for hours to see one of Yayoi Kusama’s famous Infinity Rooms, but her latest London artwork can be enjoyed without the long lines. Infinite Accumulation has been installed outside Liverpool Street Station and playfully interacts with its pulsing urban setting.
Infinite Accumulation is Kusama’s first permanent public sculpture in the UK at this scale and revisits familiar motifs, reimagining her polka dots and Narcissus balls as a series of steel orbs interconnected by twisting and spiralling metal wires. The sinewy sculpture is installed outside the new Elizabeth Line entrance, reaching over 10 metres high. It covers an area of approximately 100 metres in length, reflecting the urban architecture on its surface.
The energetic piece is the final commission by The Crossrail Art Foundation’s public art programme—set up to support the creation of the new Elizabeth Line—and was co-funded by British Land and the City of London Corporation.
‘London is a massive metropolis with people of all cultures moving constantly,’ said Kusama. ‘The spheres symbolise unique personalities while the supporting curvilinear lines allow us to imagine an underpinning social structure.’