12 October 2010–2 May 2011
Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds installation opens at the Turbine Hall in London’s Tate Modern. It comprises 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds forming a 1,000 sq. mt. grey expanse 10 cm. deep and weighing 150 tonnes. The seeds represent the millions of Chinese who died in the famines caused by Mao Zedong’s reform