Thinking back to the Ai Weiwei exhibition I visited at the Royal Academy, his installation which had the freatest impact on me was the room full of small scale 'cells', replicas of rooms he had been confined and interogated. I was struck my the way he turned us, the audience, into voyeurs, peeking in through hatches to spy on the goings-on inside and in effect turning us into one of the guards. The reduction in scale made this possible, but the realistic rendition of the people and decor of the rooms made our voyeurism more pronounced.
Ai Weiwei exhibition at the Royal Academy 2015
My plan is to now construct a model tower block, around 4fy high, with a selection of squares cut into them and photographs of rooms inserted. We will be able to view a few different rooms at different angles, for example one room viewed from the top would be like the 'small bedroom' I have already photographed from above.
