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Ai Weiwei Launches Brooklyn Show from Afar | National Geographic


to set up a show far away is a challenge
so we have teams from our studio to make
sure everything is set up accordingly
not being able to leave tells you who is
in charge and how wonderful your life
can be it always reminds you you can
always be arrested or disappeared the
major challenge is that he doesn’t have
his passport and that he has this major
exhibition here will be seen by
thousands of people
except for Iowa away one of the
challenges is in some cases just the
scale sacred I mean that’s a work of six
boxes that each weigh about 4,000 to
5,000 pounds and you start thinking
about what are the shipping arrangements
that need to be made what are the cost
that there’s logistical challenges of
installation of getting him into the
building into their location that took a
number of rounds of revisions throughout
the process I lived in New York for ten
years and I think this is a very unique
opportunity for me have a chance to come
back to New York
I can never imagine why was he in New
York could ever show you enemy Lane but
now today I have the chance to show my
works here I am very happy about it
I was not becoming political of foreign
political living a very political state
every expression has to be examined or
it can bring you great trouble for your
life so this is very very essential
values for artists to protect and to
fight for and it will never come as okay
to try and not become a political in
this kind of society it’s also a very
political and conscious or not aware
what is happening so I don’t think
anybody in this kind of society convoy
to become a political in every show are
trying to put in your works the
installation about a Haiyan whose a
woman’s rights activists came about
because she was targeted by authorities
and was packed up with all of her
belongings and left by the side of the
road I was worried and very deeply
touched so I told her who sent every
single to my studio at the beginning I
don’t know what to do is it where it is
open every box and
photographed over 1,000 atoms so we
decide to host it as a mirror in the
mid-game walls and also hood all
Adamson’s sent up the road to tell this
story what kind of society cannot
tolerate a lady which put her life in
risk to help people who has no rights
I try to use my experience and my
knowledge to help those people who has
no voice and to make some kind testimony
about how to live under this kind power
in the region I went to the exhibition
with my six year old and a year later I
told him that I was going to visit I
went way he remembered his name and he
remembered that exhibition and said oh
yeah he’s the artist who did that piece
about the children who died and that was
something that even as a five-year-old
he understood the importance of that and
the story that that was telling a
message that that was sending
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