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Artworks
Ai Weiwei
Forever Duo (Stainless Steel Bicycles in Gilding), 2013Stainless steel bicycles, 1 pair, 1 layer58 x 66.5 x 5 inchesEdition 10 of 10 + 2 APHG15592SoldWith a sly nod to Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, this extraordinary sculpture multiplies a readymade symbol of Chinese mobility: the popular Forever brand of bicycles, a once-common form of transportation in...With a sly nod to Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, this extraordinary sculpture multiplies a readymade symbol of Chinese mobility: the popular Forever brand of bicycles, a once-common form of transportation in Chinese cities.
Forever Duo (Stainless Steel Bicycles in Gilding) is a complex allusion to freedom, social mobility, mass production, and China's changing socio-economic landscape. By utilizing an object that symbolizes both physical and social movement — while removing components essential to its function — Ai Weiwei memorializes an aspect of China's past, while alluding to the human cost in its age of rapid industrialization and economic development.