Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of thousands and thousands of small works, each apparently an identical, but truly distinctive. However real looking they could seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in reality intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese metropolis of Jingdezhen. Removed from being industrially produced, they’re the trouble of lots of of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial house, the 100 million seeds kind a seemingly infinite landscape. Porcelain is sort of synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated conventional strategies of crafting what has traditionally been one in every of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invitations us to look extra carefully at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange as we speak. This movie file is broken and is being removed.
