Weeds: A Germinating Theory - Kwan Queenie Li What is a research document

What is a research document

180 x 114mm

Gagosian/ Rizzoli

Jeff Arnal

where rhetoric uses design to keep power at bay

Weeds: A Germinating Theory - Kwan Queenie Li What is a research documentFor over a decade, artist and theorist Kwan Queenie Li has been photographing weeds across the world. From Jerusalem to Shanghai, Varanasi to Athens, Cairo to Mexico City, she has trained her attention on these unintended but ubiquitous inhabitants of the contemporary urban sphere, finding them dwelling in corners and cracks, in spaces suspended between uses, in ruins and on construction sites. This essay in image and text proposes a new view of