Thursday, 17 March 2011

Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds



The Tate Turbine Hall is one of my favourite places - with or without art. But I was sceptical about the latest Unilever Installation - Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds - and disappointed that it wasn't possible to interact with the exhibit due to concerns about safety.

But then I watched this video and I suddenly I understood the beauty of the piece - more than one hundred million ceramic seeds, five times Beijing's population and a quarter of China's internet users.

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