Interlacing
Until 29 April 2012
Jeu de Paume
1, Place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
http://www.jeudepaume.org/
http://www.lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/
..."Ai Weiwei deliberately confronts social conditions in China and in the world: Through photographically documenting the architectonic clear-cutting of Beijing in the name of progress, with provocative measurements of the world, his personal positionings in the Study of Perspective, with radical cuts in the past (made to found pieces of furniture) in order to create possibilities for the present and the future, and with his tens of thousands of blog entries, blog photographs, and cell phone photographs (along with many other artistic declarations). This first, large exhibition and book project of his photography and videos focuses on Ai Weiwei's diversity, complexity, and connectedness, his "interlacing" and "networking" with hundreds of photographs, blogs, and explanatory essays.
Detained on April 3rd 2011 by the Chinese authorities, released on bail on June 22nd 2011, Ai Weiwei is still today banned from leaving the country.
Curator: Urs Stahel
Exhibition co-produced by Fotomuseum Winterthur and Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Jeu de Paume receives a subsidy from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
It gratefully acknowledges support from Neuflize Vie, its global partner.
(e-flux)
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