AI WEIWEI ROOTS

The sprawling iron sculptures in his new series, titled Roots, are casts of the root systems of the Pequi tree, a critically endange red species native to Brazil. The artist discovered these giant trees, which areover a century old, during a trip through the rainfo rest of Bahía and first assembled them in sculptural compositions for the exhibition Raiz at the OCA Pavilion in São Paulo (2018).