Zen Art

Liang Shaoji

made by silkworms

Sun Yuan & Peng Yu

made of car-tyres

Art of Change

Waste Not

Chinese conceptualist artist Song Dong displayed her mother's collection of over 10000 objects in Barbican, London hoarded during five decades of social and political turmoil in Peking.
The collection of thousands of old, rubbish stuff helps to understand five decades of Chinese history  with a constant struggle for survival, but also explores the role everyday objects play in our memories.

isn't this familiar?

waste not

Ai Weiwei's Crusade

 Money wrapped fruits and paper airplane notes
 thrown over the wall of Ai WeiWei's home 
donated to the artist to pay his huge tax fine in China.

“...every penny borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody’s rights.”