Developed in collaboration with the artist, Ai Weiwei: Making Sense at London's Design Museum is 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.
The exhibition draws on Ai's fascination with historical Chinese artefacts, placing their traditional craftsmanship in dialogue with the more recent history of demolition and urban development in China. Making Sense includes some of the artist’s most important works displayed alongside collections of objects that have never been seen and new commissions made for the exhibition. The result is a meditation on value – on histories and skills that have been ignored or erased.
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