It may have been an accomplished piece of viral imagery, but as a political act, last week’s photograph – which has been described as “crude, thoughtless and egotistical” – was a misfire. Ai Weiwei wants you to know he is a political artist. For more than four decades, the Chinese dissident has been creating work that addresses freedom of speech and human rights. Now he is turning his attention to refugees. Earlier this week Ai posed dead on a beach in Greece, recreating the now-iconic 2015 photograph of drowned Syrian refugee infant Alan Kurdi for the magazine India Today and an accompanying exhibition at the Indian Art Fair. Continue reading...
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