A tableaux, also known as a “living picture,” are static scenes recreated for visual arts purposes. This image above is from the exhibitions “when worlds collide.” The image is titled 2004 © Wang Qingsong. In the image he is recreating the Cultural Revolution. He did so in a movie studio and covered all the walls in hand made posters with corporate logos on them. There are over 600 posters in this picture. The people in the shot show the true scale of the amount of work they have put into creating this picture.
