Ai WEIWEI
Study of Perspective Continues
Study of Perspective Continues
Ai Weiwei x THE SKATEROOM
For our fourth collaboration with Ai Weiwei, THE SKATEROOM returns to one of the artist’s most iconic and enduring bodies of work: Study of Perspective.
This new release presents three hand-signed skateboard editions featuring Hong Kong, Reichstag, and Trump Tower.
Each edition will be available exclusively through a 72-hour online release window. Once the window closes, production ends permanently. The final edition size of each work will only be revealed afterward, determined entirely by collector demand during the drop.
Every deck is hand-signed by Ai Weiwei and individually numbered in chronological order, first come, first served.
A Gesture Against Power
For decades, Study of Perspective has stood as one of Ai Weiwei’s most recognizable visual gestures. Through a deliberately simple act, the artist confronts systems of authority, symbols of power, and structures of ideology. The raised middle finger becomes both deeply personal and universally legible: a gesture of resistance, irreverence, freedom, and questioning.
Across this new collection, the selected locations reflect distinct forms of political, cultural, and institutional power.
Hong Kong captures a city shaped by tension, identity, and the ongoing struggle between autonomy and control.
Reichstag references Germany’s parliament building, a symbol carrying the layered weight of history, democracy, nationalism, destruction, and reconstruction.
Trump Tower points toward spectacle, capitalism, celebrity politics, and the increasingly blurred line between power and performance.
Skateboarding as Public Expression
Together, the works continue Ai Weiwei’s longstanding examination of authority and collective memory, translated here onto an object rooted in counterculture, movement, and public expression.
The skateboard has always existed as more than a functional object. It occupies public space differently. It questions architecture differently. It challenges systems differently.
That spirit has long connected naturally with Ai Weiwei’s practice, making this ongoing collaboration feel especially resonant.
A Release Limited in Time
This release follows a time-limited format: collectors will have 72 hours to secure an edition before production closes permanently.
No predetermined edition size will be announced in advance. Instead, the final quantity of each artwork will be revealed only once the window closes, creating a direct relationship between the release and the community collecting it.
Each deck is hand-signed by Ai Weiwei and numbered chronologically according to order of purchase.
No reprints. No extended release. No second edition. Only those collected during the 72-hour window will ever exist.
Previous Editions
Previous Editions
