From a marble toilet roll to a giant Lego structure, Ai Weiwei's upcoming London exhibition finds value in the ordinary.
" things we think of as worthless in ordinary times, something as worthless as a toilet roll, which during the pandemic suddenly became precious... that for him was a real signal of how objects can gain and lose value depending on the context of our times," said Justin McGuirk, the chief curator at the Design Museum and the exhibition curator, at an online press launch.
A number of site-specific installations, comprising hundreds of thousands of objects arranged on the gallery's floor in sections known as"fields," form the centerpiece of the show. These consist of works collected by Ai in recent years, encompassing items such as Stone Age tools and Lego bricks. The show will also include Ai's largest work ever made out of Lego.
Between the 200,000 porcelain spouts from teapots and wine ewers and the 100,000 porcelain displayed balls alongside them, other fields shine a light on ancient handcrafted works."We often say modern people do not know how to wash a dish," Ai said."In some senses, we are less understanding... about the touch, texture and shape of forms made by human hands." The field sections in the exhibition will not be cordoned off to visitors, who will be able to walk freely between them.
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