Artist field note

Ai Weiwei

Art as evidence, provocation and public argument.

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Remembering by Ai Weiwei
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Remembering

2009

Nine thousand school backpacks spell a sentence from a mother whose child died in the Sichuan earthquake. Statistics are forced back into individual loss.

The five in one idea

Ai makes objects do civic work: they ask who controls history, information and the right to speak.