Zodiac - Ai Weiwei

Zodiac - Ai WeiweiFrom the publisher: Ai Weiwei, Gianluca Costantini, Elettra Stamboulis In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac. As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government approved comic books. Although they were

They photographed the residents and documented the building – every door

combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies

on a government website

she has designed identities for Art Joburg

and the dynamics that deny those proponents of Afropessimism

Considered one of the major photographic works in this genre

The text appears in English

We sought to shift the grounds of the debate from institutional concerns and legal aspects of restitution to more daring and wider-reaching questions

With the camera in front of the screen he gets “his” images out of the automatically generated

Avoiding the traps of predictable narrative and manipulative emotionalism

Published on the occasion of the first Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial

What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence