Photo courtesy of Matthieu
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands.
It is a meditation on the China of Mao and how uniformity will never completely erase human individuality. It is also about sharing, as Ai Weiwei explains in the film below.
NB: This installation was originally meant to be walked on, but due to health & safety reasons it is not possible to do so anymore (porcelain dust inhalation...). Yet, when I went to see the installation, I was quite shocked to see some people sneakily stealing some of the seeds...
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