Yayoi Kusama, Fireflies on the Water, 2002.
Kusama created a room that viewers enter to shut out the world. We enter it as we might enter our own imagination, where no one can follow.
Louis Bourgeois, Red Room, 1994
Bourgeois turns an idea inside creating a room viewers want to enter but cannot. The subject is the psychological scarring of her own childhood, which was spent with a mother she adored and a father she hated because his infidelity to her mother.
The similarities between the two is that both artists create a room out of pure imagination coming to life. Bourgeois room is somewhat simple to assemble as opposed to Kusama's piece that looks rather difficult to create. One room brings a almost lucid scenery while the other draws more emotions of anger and hostility.
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