Ai Weiwei: Making Sense
Venue: The Design Museum
Exhibition Design: Ai Weiwei Studio
2D Designer: Twelve Design Studio
Lighting Design: Lewis Hannaby for Beam Lighting Design
Photography: Ed Reeve
Borrowing theatrical technique for museum discipline, Lewis created large, homogeneous fields of light across Ai’s floor installations, fine-tuning colour temperature and spectral balance for each so materials read at scale. Hard cut-offs shape boundaries of light and dark, using positive and negative space as wayfinding. In the atrium, Colour House runs a five-minute naturalistic daylight cycle that reveals nuance and craft as tones gently shift.
“★★★★… Poignant, powerful.” — The Times
“★★★★... Elegiac and life-affirming… horror, playfulness and delight.” — The Guardian