Architect. Proud, hedonist, melomaniac, melancholic. Lust for Fine Arts. This is my Garden of Earthly Delights, please clean up your feets before coming in.
As humans we’re always close to destruction. Life itself is but a series of close calls. I mean, how would you know you were alive unless you knew you could die?
Ai Weiwei’s fences take on borders and belonging in NYC exhibit
The exhibit, which spans the five boroughs, opens to the public on October 12 and is comprised of more than 300 pieces. Like the Robert Frost poem it references, the show examines the tension and contradictions surrounding borders and those excluded by them, inspired by Ai’s concerns about the global refugee crisis and related geopolitical conflicts. Many of the city sites selected by Ai, once a New York immigrant himself, also have close ties to histories of immigration, protest, and free speech.
