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The eleventh commission in the tate modern’s unilever series, chinese conceptual artist ai weiwei has filled the museum’s turbine hall with millions of life-sized sunflower seed husks made out of porcelain. the collective effort of a number of specialists fr

om jingdezhen, china, the hand-crafted seeds were individually formed and painted. the installation encourages visitors to touch and walkon the carpet of tiny replicates.