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Yayoi Kusama's The Passing Winter 2005 is a sculpture of a cube positioned on two panes of glass, which are arranged to form an x-shaped pedestal. The cube’s interior and exterior is lined with mirrors, and its sides each contain three circular holes of different sizes. Viewers are invited to look through these holes and in doing so can see the circular shapes that are cut into the cube’s walls reflected infinitely across its mirror-lined interior. This gives the impression of an indefinite, ever-receding space in which the reflected circles seem to float.
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The title 'The passing winter’ could be understood as a reference to the often snow-like appearance of the floating dots or the flashes of light produced when light catches the mirrors’ surfaces. Furthermore, the notion of a passing season could reflect the transient nature of the artwork itself, which takes on new and constantly shifting appearances depending on the time of day, the position of the viewer and the room in which it is exhibited.

Polka dots are a very common motif in Kusama’s practice. Since the 1950s she has used them in many works across different media, including paintings, prints, drawings, performances and installations. Kusama's most frequent explanation is that the dots have a kind of cosmological significance for her. In 1965 she said: ‘Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environment.’
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See The Passing Winter on free display at Tate Modern in 'Between Object and Architecture' on level 2.

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