Left Right Studio Material, 2018 and Backpack Snake, 2008
Photographed at
Ai Weiwei - Making Sense
At the Design Museum designmuseum.org/exhibitions/ai-weiwei-making-sense#
"This major exhibition, developed in collaboration with the artist, will be the first to present his work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values. Through his engagement with material culture, Ai explores the tension between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction.
Turning destruction into art - The fragments of porcelain, are the remains of Ai Weiwei's porcelain sculptures that were destroyed when his "Left Right" studio in Beijing was demolished by the Chinese state in 2018.
The "Backpack Snake, 2008" is a work dedicated to the victims of the refugee crisis in Europe and the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
Left Right Studio Material, 2018 and Backpack Snake, 2008
Photographed at
Ai Weiwei - Making Sense
At the Design Museum designmuseum.org/exhibitions/ai-weiwei-making-sense#
"This major exhibition, developed in collaboration with the artist, will be the first to present his work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values. Through his engagement with material culture, Ai explores the tension between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction.
Turning destruction into art - The fragments of porcelain, are the remains of Ai Weiwei's porcelain sculptures that were destroyed when his "Left Right" studio in Beijing was demolished by the Chinese state in 2018.
The "Backpack Snake, 2008" is a work dedicated to the victims of the refugee crisis in Europe and the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China.