Yayoi Kusama // Hat, 1983

  • Yayoi Kusama, Hat, 1983. Screenprint in colours, 55.5 × 64 cm, edition of 100. Features Kusama’s distinctive graphic style with bold pattern and playful composition.
    Hat, 1983
    Screenprint in colours, 55.5 × 64 cm, Edition of 100
    © Yayoi Kusama. 

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    Yayoi Kusama’s Hat (1983) is a colour screenprint measuring 55.5 × 64 cm, produced in an edition of 100. The print transforms a simple accessory into a bold, surreal object, reimagined through Kusama’s unique visual language of repetition, vibrant colour, and stylised form. By isolating the hat as her subject, she elevates an everyday item into a symbolic motif that resonates with her broader themes of identity and self-presentation.

     

    In Hat, the familiar is rendered unfamiliar. The contours of the object are accentuated with saturated colour and pattern, echoing Kusama’s fascination with turning ordinary things into extraordinary visions. The work reflects her ongoing exploration of how objects can embody both personal memory and wider cultural meaning, a hallmark of her printmaking practice during the 1980s.

     
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  • “I convert the energy of my life into dots and patterns, and in doing so, I can continue to live.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    As with many of her editioned works, Hat compresses Kusama’s immersive ideas into a smaller, collectible format. The image demonstrates her ability to distil her obsessive approach into concise, impactful compositions, linking the mundane to the infinite. In doing so, the work reflects her belief that even the most ordinary subjects can be transformed into vessels of imagination and psychological depth.