30 July 2015
Today I have seen the movie "Ai Weiwei Never Sorry" which was about the artist named Ai Weiwei, he is a famous Chinese artist and also political activist. His work represents of social justice and political in China.
"Remembering" (2009)
"Remembering" (2009) is the Ai Weiwei's work that commemorate the victims who were buried underneath of collapsed school in the Sichuan earthquake. Because of negligence in the building of schools, there were over 4,000 children perished that Ai Weiwei was able to research the name and published on his blog. In this work, he used 9,000 backpacks and five colour; red, yellow, blue, green, and white to create the Chinese sentence from the mother's victim on facade which was " She lived happily for seven years in this world". I think he want to remind people to recall the children and especially, provoke people to think about the substandard building that there was some corruption behind.
"Remembering" (2009)
This work reminds me about some negligent buildings in my country such as flat and office building that there are business and government corruption behind, the owner want to make only a profit without considering about the safety of an occupant or even a laborer. Last year there were the flat was collapsed that made a laborer died while they were working. Whereas, there was on one paid attention to them just read from news and forgot about it after that. I think maybe because they are a laborer that made no one treated as important situation which is discrimination problems and especially social inequality in my country. I think the way that Ai Weiwei presented that really powerful and make people to realize about association of life and corruption problems.
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