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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Ai Weiwei covers Berlin concert hall with 14,000 life jackets to highlight Europe’s refugee crisis
An
art installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei with discarded life
jackets collected at the Greek island Lesbos is set up at the
Konzerthalle Berlin. Pic: AP.
CHINESE artist and activist Ai Weiwei has been outspoken in his criticism of Europe’s handling of the ongoing refugee crisis.
In his latest art installation, he has covered the pillars of Berlin’s
concert hall with 14,000 life vests discarded by refugees who had
arrived on the shores of Greek island Lesbos.
The
neon orange jackets were used to call attention to the plight of
refugees fleeing their war-torn countries and risking their lives to
reach Europe by sea from Turkey.
In 2015, over 1 million refugees arrived in Europe via sea routes, and
more than 3,700 of them perished during the perilous sea voyage between
Turkey and Lesbos, while tens of thousands of life jackets have been
left behind on the island’s beaches.
Since the start of the crisis, Ai has repeatedly visited Lesbos and even
set up a studio there, where he has been working on several projects
focusing on the issue, including the #safepassage campaign on social
media, which uses pictures taken on Lesbos and other refugee entry
points.
Ai recently closed two exhibitions in Denmark in protest after the
country passed a law allowing the state to confiscate valuables from
migrants.
He also caused a stir when he recreated the haunting image of drowned Syrian child Alan Kurdi.
Powerful: @aiww recreates scene of dead Syrian toddler.washingtonpost.com/news/worldview… #SyrianRefugees@IOM_news
