One of Ai Wewei’s more famous works is known as Remembering, which was an installation mural displayed at Haus Der Kunst in Munich, Germany. This piece of art features nine thousand backpacks that symbolizes the bags that the children left behind from the tragic earthquake that occurred in Sichuan in 2008 which took the lives of more than five thousand children (Dunn, 2016). Ai Wewei was skeptical and suspicious of the government’s handling of the tragedy due to the subprime construction of schools and the government’s secrecy over the death toll and the names of the deceased (Dunn, 2016). With Remembering, Ai Wewei was capable of producing a striking and terrible statement utilizing only backpacks. Rather than simply telling the story of the children that died, he created a visual representation of the lives that were
One of Ai Wewei’s more famous works is known as Remembering, which was an installation mural displayed at Haus Der Kunst in Munich, Germany. This piece of art features nine thousand backpacks that symbolizes the bags that the children left behind from the tragic earthquake that occurred in Sichuan in 2008 which took the lives of more than five thousand children (Dunn, 2016). Ai Wewei was skeptical and suspicious of the government’s handling of the tragedy due to the subprime construction of schools and the government’s secrecy over the death toll and the names of the deceased (Dunn, 2016). With Remembering, Ai Wewei was capable of producing a striking and terrible statement utilizing only backpacks. Rather than simply telling the story of the children that died, he created a visual representation of the lives that were