Yayoi Kusama // Shoes, 1984

  • Yayoi Kusama, Shoes, 1984. Screenprint, 46 × 53 cm, edition of 100. Depicts Kusama’s bold, patterned rendering of shoes, combining everyday subject matter with her signature graphic style.
    Shoes, 1984
    Screenprint, 46 × 53 cm, Edition of 100
    © Yayoi Kusama.
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    Yayoi Kusama’s Shoes (1984) is a screenprint measuring 46 × 53 cm, produced in an edition of 100. The work transforms an everyday accessory into an emblematic subject, reimagined through Kusama’s signature use of bold colour, repetition, and stylised form. By isolating the shoe, she elevates a familiar object into an image charged with psychological resonance and surreal undertones.
     
    Here, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The curves and contours of the footwear are accentuated through graphic detail and colour, echoing Kusama’s fascination with turning domestic or personal items into visual symbols of obsession and transformation. The print reflects her broader artistic pursuit of dissolving boundaries between art and life, making even the most commonplace items part of her infinite visual world.
     
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  • “Accumulation is the result of my obsession, and through it I create a world of my own.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    As with many of her editioned works from the 1980s, Shoes demonstrates Kusama’s ability to distil her larger ideas into the intimate medium of print. The composition reveals her unique capacity to fuse fashion, memory, and psychological depth, transforming the subject into a vessel of repetition and imagination.