As the eleventh commission in London’s Tate Modern’s Unilever series, Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei has filled the museum’s turbine hall with millions of life-sized sunflower seed husks made out of porcelain.

Ai Weiwei has manipulated the traditional methods of crafting porcelain, to explore the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.

The handcrafted seeds were individually formed and painted by a number of specialists from Jingdezhen, China.

The installation encourages visitors to touch and walk on the carpet of tiny replicates.

We can only imagine how many are going walkies…

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