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“LEGO gave me the opportunity to give a clear design that could be followed by the constructor,” Weiwei explains. “It’s digitally precise, so it’s no different from a so-called ‘original’.LEGO destroys this idea of an ‘original’, which I like.

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It is made up of a series of 176 portraits of political prisoners from around the world, formed fromLEGObricks.

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Lego refused to provide Ai Weiwei with the blocks for political reasons. Ai Weiwei took to social media to express his displeasure with the Danish company and asked for second-hand Lego blocks with which to complete his creation.

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Ai Weiwei's Letgo Room, created with Lego blocks collected from around the world, was finally unveiled to much anticipation, exploring political dissidents in Australia, including WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange

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They say we are the happiest generation (not having experienced trauma)
They also say we are the most naive generation

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Through the darkest years of the new China, trauma, death and exile. More courage to face up to the realities of society

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The dissipation of democratic consciousness in the selfie portraits of 2 generations of intellectuals

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The dissipation of democratic consciousness in the selfie portraits of 2 generations of intellectuals

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From the first generation of international students to my own generation, the spirit of rebellion has disappeared and the passion for truth has receded as we have not experienced the traumatic times

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Aiweiwei  -  The first generation to study abroad

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Aiweiwei  -  The first generation to study abroad

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Ai Weiwei's absolute protest at the June Fourth Movement

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Ai Weiwei's absolute protest at the June Fourth Movement

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Using the phantom of the Statue of Liberty as a witness, drifting through history, events, and current reality - documenting the dissipation and flow of democratic consciousness, and giving a first-person voice to reality

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Using vanishing symbols  to express the dissipation of Democratic consciousness

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As with the time of the June 4 protests, Ai Weiwei was eliminated as a symbol of democracy

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As with the time of the June 4 protests, Ai Weiwei was eliminated as a symbol of democracy

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Ai Weiwei, the artist whose traces have been erased

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Ai Weiwei, the artist whose traces have been erased

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The exodus of youth with a strong sense of democracy after the June Fourth Movement also brought democracy in China overseas, which triggered the pro-democracy protests that took place overseas but against mainland China in the following decades. Attempts by artist social activists, including Ai Weiwei, to build a sense of democracy in China have repeatedly failed, but have echoed more loudly abroad. This consciousness moved between abroad and at home, but would dissipate under authoritarian control

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 Protest-Flow  /  The Dispersal of Consciousness  /  Faded Truth

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 Protest-Flow  /  The Dispersal of Consciousness  /  Faded Truth

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Exploring the exile and dissipation of democratic consciousness in the context of the submissiveness of Chinese youth to politics

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Modern interviews are interspersed with historical re-enactments, contrasting the state and attitudes of modern young people with those of protesting youth of the past, showing contradictions. "Democracy" is transformed into a phantom, wandering in a first-perspective way.

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The art of ruins: transforming ruins into suffering, not avoiding the existence of ruins, facing up to the social roots of suffering, and thus making a profound reflection on human nature and history.

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VIDEO -IN MY WORK FLOW - https://workflow.arts.ac.uk/view/blocks.php?id=702465   

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VIDEO -IN MY WORK FLOW - https://workflow.arts.ac.uk/view/blocks.php?id=702465   

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The reconstruction of the remains of a lost democratic history in the form of a Paper pulp sculpture expresses the fact that although the history that has taken place can be forgotten, the fact of its existence will live on as Wreckage.

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A wood sculpture. It is a piece that uses the roots of a dead tree to create a dying castle: a place that used to be bustling with life but has somehow fallen into disrepair and collapsed, the whole piece is full of mystery.

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"The superficial act of obedience is often without purpose. I chose to depict the same characters, similar postures, the same features, in order to emphasize the emptiness of the arrangement of these figures. By using the same image and borrowing a cartoonish appearance, I aim to tell a particular story by satirising human nature" (Yue Minjun, 2006, Galerie Enrico Navarra and Hanya Hsien, Paris, Hong Kong, pp. 60 - 61).

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a homemade statue of the goddess of protest made by university students

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The Forgotten History of Democracy: The June Fourth Incident

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The Forgotten History of Democracy: The June Fourth Incident

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The contemporary nation is tamed and obedient

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The contemporary nation is tamed and obedient

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The government is "brainwashing" the people, teaching so-called "patriotism" to children from primary and secondary schools