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straightened mangled and twisted rebar

Straightened mangled and twisted rebar, collected in Sichuan after earthquake (China) in 2008.

About 90 thousand people died, and among these many children at schools, which were of poor construction. To point to failure of authorities in this often by earthquakes visted area, team collected 200 tons twisted rebar, staightened this to be part of installation by Ai Wei Wei.

(photo by DM in K20/K21 Museum, Düsseldorf, 2019

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Uploaded on July 31, 2022
Taken on August 24, 2019