Kusama: Infinity

The artist Yayoi Kusama is recognizable for many things: her obsession with polka dots, her ability to bend space, her fire-engine red hair. Pittsburghers would be most familiar with her permanent installation at the Mattress Factory, Infinity Dots Mirrored Room, which is one of several of Kusama’s pieces that play with limits of space and the concept of infinity. Her work is colorful, surreal, disorienting, and memorable. The documentary Kusama: Infinity, showing at Row House Cinema, explores the artist’s childhood in Japan, how her mental health struggles reflect in her art, and her efforts to be taken as seriously as her male peers.