Ai Weiwei-Sunflower Seeds 2010 Tate Modern

Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small individual sculptures, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seeds are actually carefully hand-crafted and hand painted porcelain sculptures. 
 Far from being industrially produced, they are the labour of many skilled hands in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Forming a carpet in the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds fill the space to creare a seemingly infinite landscape. 
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has used and manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon.

Visit the Tate Modern for free to see this amazing sculpture for yourself!!