“Forever” Bicycles comprises parts of 42 bicycles of the “Forever” brand, a classic reconfiguration of utilitarian articles bordering on abstraction. The interplay of these dramatic circles and lines change constantly from different perspectives.
(Charles Merewether, “Ai Weiwei Works: Beijing 1993 – 2003”)
"an iconic object of Chinese life [transformed] into a cog in a giant geometric structure, pointedly abstracting it of any content".
(Jonathan Napack, in “Ai Weiwei Works," Charles Merewether (ed.): Beijing 1993 – 2003)