He insists, too, that none of the retail entropy-the brand signage, the fragrance, the products as backdrop-detracts from the installation as art. But I always admire that a human has those needs.
He answers that he is attracted to the idea of his work being, “associated with perfumes or ladies’ bags,” before adding, “I have no idea why and how the people are so, so interested, or why they’re necessary.
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I could point out a certain situational absurdity, but we only have 15 minutes together and if the urge is to continue talking about the migrants, or else about Lego’s revised policy on bulk purchasing prompted by Ai’s outspoken campaign, we are here to discuss how Le Bon Marché has invited him to fill its windows and vast atrium with new works.īut that still doesn’t exactly explain what drew him to this particular project (his last major show in Paris was at the Jeu de Paume in 2012). Beyond our well-appointed salon is an exhaustive selection of high-end watches. I do my best to reciprocate, yet in our shared field of vision is a plate stacked with mini croissants.
It doesn’t fit into my image of our civilization and our democratic world and our ideology of social justice and human rights.” “They’re seen as potential criminals or very foreign. “They come to this land and this land doesn’t care that much,” he says. Ai Weiwei is in a windowless VIP shopping suite talking about the refugee crisis, which he witnessed firsthand when he spent the holiday period on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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