The largest permanent public installation by Yayoi Kusama, Infinite Accumulation, has been placed at London’s Liverpool Street station as a kind of grand portal. Commissioned as part of the Crossrail Art Program, developed by the Crossrail Art Foundation in collaboration with the Victoria Miro Gallery, the artwork enriches Liverpool Street station, which was inaugurated in early August, as the final stage of the project that installed a series of works by British and international artists in the city to celebrate the Elizabeth Line, whose first section opened in 2022.

Infinite Accumulation, the first public work by the Japanese artist in the United Kingdom, stands 10 meters tall and is composed of reflective silver spheres connected by a complex web, which in some way recalls a spatial version of Kusama’s iconic polka dots. The work aims to symbolize the diversity of the city’s population and its social structure. The curved connections that link and support the spheres seem to remind us that no one, no matter how brilliant, can consider themselves an entity separate from the rest.