Art Miami : ZOOOM! Decoding Common Practice:
Ai Weiwei. ‘Chang’an Boulevard,’ 2004.
Video with sound on hard disk. 10h 13′.Art Miami
November 29–December 4, 2011“Simple, easy as a children’s game. We do and say, watch and hear them every day—those common gestures, actions and casual remarks making up our everyday life—they give us security, the certainty to belong to somewhere, to be part of a group. Only occasionally we catch a glimpse beyond the ordinary and discover the precariousness of the stability that those communities, we believe to belong to, try to maintain.”
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