Every Day I Pray for Love: Yayoi Kusama

Ota Fine Arts is pleased to present "Every Day I Pray for Love," an exhibition of new and recent works by Yayoi Kusama. The exhibition, Kusama's first at Ota Fine Arts in three years, will feature 48 paintings from the series  "Every Day I Pray for Love" which Kusama has been actively working on since 2021, and two new drawings. The exhibition will travel to Shanghai (May 2024) and Singapore (September 2024).

In her latest series "Every Day I Pray for Love" (2021-present), Kusama updates her own expressive language with the appearance of  'sentences'.  Among her signature motifs such as nets, dots and profiles, Kusama often mixes marker pen and acrylic paints to create one or more circles on the canvas, within which she writes her own poems and messages in Japanese or English. The subtle changes in the weight and speed of her brush strokes vividly conveys the rhythms of her breath.

Since the pandemic in 2020, Kusama has been working in her own room, and the size of her work has become proportionate with her living space. This series continues to emerge from her desire to create art outside the confines of the self. They are the very traces of Kusama's life.