Art and Culture  Exhibition 

Serious games

Ai Weiwei in London

Art and Culture  Exhibition 

Serious games

Ai Weiwei in London

Rowan Moore 
01/05/2023


© Photos Ai Weiwei Studio

In the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 many children died, often as a result of the poor construction of their schools. They are commemorated in ‘Making Sense,’ Ai Weiwei’s new exhibition at the Design Museum in London: the names of 5,197 of them are printed in red on framed sheets of paper, using hand-carved jade stamps individually made for each one. There is also Rebar and Case, an arrangement of coffin-like seats around a representation in marble, fragile and ghostly, of the steel reinforcement bars whose faulty or insufficient installation contributed to the collapse of the school buildings...[+]


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