Ai Weiwei: Citizens Investigation – The Silk Scarf (Edition of 2500 copies)

Ai Weiwei

Taschen, 2019

250,00

Papercutting is a traditional Chinese art going back 2,000 years. The colored, intricately cut papers are used as a story-telling medium in festivities, for prayers, and as everyday decoration. The black scarf takes its motif from a papercut created by Ai Weiwei as part of his Papercut Portfolio, published by TASCHEN in 2019: Citizens’ Investigation, reflecting on the somber aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 and his subsequent activism to clear up why so many victims could be found especially among schoolchildren.

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b/w scarf, 100% silk, handwoven and hand-silkscreened, 90 x 90 cm, wrapped in tissue paper and packaged in cardboard box, 26 x 26 cm