Ai Weiwei – Remembering, 2009, 100x1000cm, Haus der Kunst, München
(Germany)
“She was living happily in the world for seven years.”
The slogan was
put outside the Haus der Kunst in Munich by using around 9,000 backpacks.
What is the message that Ai Weiwei wanted to convey to people? Before
I understood the story behind, I just regarded this work as a backpacks’
mosaic with some words. However, the deep meaning of these backpacks and the
words which had been shown what Weiwei was going to tell the world the issue
that he cared about after I watched the documentary.
The problems
which the government or authority did not want to face or care about, Weiwei
had chosen an efficient way which made people start to confront the issue,
therefore, it would let the authority could not escape from this issue.
Although the work might not change the situation, it had come into the public
notice anyway. The backpack used to contain hopes and futures for students and
their parents. Unfortunately, it became their nightmare with despair and sorrow
after the earthquake. It could be found that if art is a method to protect or
prevent the object and then the power would be stronger than we thought.
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