Venice, 1966. During the 33rd edition of the Biennale, there’s also Yayoi Kusama with an installation – Narcissus Garden – part of an unofficial performance: in a sea of reflecting plastic spheres, the artist stand in the middle with a sign that offered for sale the narcissism of the visitor. Who can’t break himself/herself from their own reflected image could buy the sphere for 2 dollars each.

Back to our days, that same installation is now arrived in New York, precisely in an old train garage in Fort Tilden, where it will stay until September 3rd during the Rockaway! 2018 free public art festival. Kusama standing in the middle with a sign is not there, for obvious reasons, even if today more than ever the message of the artistic work is more obvious: our ego has become so much important and it has to be busted out first in social media, then in real life. The fact that the 1500 spheres are made not of plastic but of metal helps and this time the visitor not only sees his/her beauty reflected but also the graffiti and the environment where the installation is and that carries in an evident way the signs of Hurricane Sandy.

So if you’re in New York and a selfie in the Big Apple is not enough, one of the creations of Yayoi Kusama is more than happy to be lived and Instagrammed too.