Spring Workshop has welcomed artist Christodoulos Panayiotouto a two-month residency. During his stay, Panayiotou embarked on a project in China's Guangdong province, researching what has become home to the world's largest concentration of artificial flower factories. Upon Panayiotou's invitation to collaborate, artist Philip Wiegard engaged 32 children aged 8 to 15 in an 11-day workshop where they created handmade wallpaper in a series of patterns developed from a historic artisanal technique that makes use of the children's unique physiological attributes.

The research and workshop programmes will culminate in an exhibition ''The Permeability of Certain Matters'' that will be open from May 3 to July 13, and which will feature Panayiotou’s new photography works against the confrontational backdrop of Wiegard’s wallpaper. Topics such as artisanship and mass production, pre-industrial and globalized production, representation, economy and the history of child labor are central to the exhibition.

Exhibition Hours:
May 15 to July 13, 2014
12pm to 6pm (Tuesday to Sunday)
Open on public holidays

Art Basel period from May 15 to 18, 2014 :

12pm to 9pm 

Artist Talk:
Evening of May 3, 2014

-Spring Workshop

Image: © Christodoulos Panayiotou
Courtesy of the artist and Spring Workshop