Including over two thousand pieces of handcrafted glass, The Human Comedy is a chandelier of colossal dimensions (over six metres wide by almost nine metres in height) and is the result of a three-year collaboration between the famous Chinese artist and activist and Berengo Studio’s master craftsmen. Although it was started well before the outbreak of COVID-19, its dramatic cascade of bones, skulls, and organs cannot help but conjure a striking monument to the lives lost over the course of the pandemic. Ai Weiwei sends a clear message about the mutability of life and at the same time encourages us to think of the future.
