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Despite the geographical distance between China and Mexico, Ai Weiwei explores the traumas experienced in these two places in a narrative that appeals to our obligation to construct social memory. This project brings together the concern represented by the destruction of cultural heritage and our relationship with our ancestors; the trauma signified by the attack on the future, which presumes violence against young people. Ai Weiwei presents his greatest historical and political readymade at the MUAC: the Wang Family Ancestral Hall (2015), a Ming-dynasty-era wooden temple that registers the destruction of Chinese cultural heritage in the violence of revolution, the loss of traditional rural society, and the commodification of antiquities. These four-hundred-year-old ruins epitomize the complex negotiations between new and old, and this artwork marks the period of constant surveillance that the artist endured in Beijing after his 2011 arrest, before he went into exile in Europe.In 2016, Ai Weiwei visited Mexico and this provided the motivation for a new project about the trauma associated with losing the future. Through a documentary film and a series of portraits made with Lego pieces, the artist explores the personal and social consequences of the disappearance of the 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa on the night of September 26-27, 2014. This project makes a bid for constructing memory as an invisible tie that binds us to our ancestors and maps out an obligation to the generations that succeed us.
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Ai Weiwei: qian nian bei huan = 1000 years of Joys and sorrows : a memoir
2022, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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Ai Weiwei: restablecer memorias = resetting memories
2019, MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, RM Verlag, RM VERLAG, RM/MUAC
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Ai Weiwei: d'ailleurs c'est toujours les autres
2017, 5 continents
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Ai Weiwei: er xi, air de jeux
2016, Le Bon Marché rive gauche, Cherche midi
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Ai Weiwei: Circle of animals/Zodiac heads : CAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, 18 septiembre, 6 diciembre 2015 = 18 September, 6 December 2015
2015, CAC Málaga
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Ai Weiwei: New York 1983-1993
2010, Three Shadows Press
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Ai Weiwei: dropping the urn : ceramic works, 5000 BCE-2010 CE
2010, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Distributed in North America by R.A.M. Publications + Distribution
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Ai Weiwei: with milk, find something everybody can use : intervention in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
2010, Actar, Fundació Mies van der Rohe
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Ai Weiwei
2008, Groninger Museum, Art Data [distributor], Art Data [distributor
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Published on occasion of the exhibition "Ai Weiwei. Resetting Memories", April 13-October 6, 2019, MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City ; November 28, 2019-March 8, 2020 ; MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey.
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"These photos were taken between 1983 and 1994 during the decade I spent living in New York before returning to Beijing. At that time, I didn't really have anything to do. I was just hanging out, whiling away my time everyday by taking pictures of the people I met, places I went, my friends, my neighborhood, the street and the city. In a flash twenty years have passed, and the New York I knew no longer exists. The appearance of the East Village has totally changed, and many of the people in my photographs are no longer in this world. I took these photos casually, and most of my subjects probably don't even realize that they are in them. Today, looking back on the past, I can see that these photographs are facts, but not necessarily true. After all, any reality is just a factor of change - an unconfirmed moment in the slow march of time. The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today."--Ai Weiwei.
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