In issue 61

Neatly arranged around the wooden skeleton of a tiny traditional Chinese dwelling, the fruits of half a century's hoarding, a seemingly indiscriminate collection of items ranging from blankets to bottle tops, fill the Barbican Centre's Curve Gallery to the rafters. This is Song Dong's 'Waste Not'. The accumulator of the hoard was the artist's late mother, and how a family could go about their daily routine with all that stuff around them is totally impossible to imagine... almost. Read on...