Chinese Artist Covers Berlin’s Konzerthaus With 14,000 Refugee Life Jackets
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is critical of the European response to the refugee crisis. On February 13th, he unveiled a striking installation at Berlin’s Konzerthaus, where he had wrapped the building’s columns in 14,000 discarded refugee life jackets that had been discarded on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Staged in coordination with the Cinema For Peace gala on February 15th, according to Weiwei, every lifejacket symbolizes an individual life for whom then landing at Lesbos is just the beginning. Be sure to check of Weiwei’s Instagram to see some of the photos that he’s taken of asylum seekers on their journey of hope.
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Thousands have risked their lives to find a better life in Europe
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But Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is critical of the European response to the refugee crisis
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On February 13th, he unveiled this striking installation at Berlin’s Konzerthaus
Image credits: mompl
14,000 lifejackets, discarded by refugees who landed at Lesbos
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The project took about a month to complete
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Image credits: Konzerthaus Berlin
Image credits: Konzerthaus Berlin
Weiwei’s Instagram documents what many of the refugees face
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The best part about refugee crisis is how everybody want SOMEONE ELSE to take the refugees.
As a European myself, I'd just want to point out that each country responded differently, so "the European response to the refugee crisis" part is a little too vague, isn't it?
Lebanon as a single country took the same number of refugees as the whole EU ... not mention the waves of extremists that marching the cities all around the Europe in name of Pegida.
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The best part about refugee crisis is how everybody want SOMEONE ELSE to take the refugees.
As a European myself, I'd just want to point out that each country responded differently, so "the European response to the refugee crisis" part is a little too vague, isn't it?
Lebanon as a single country took the same number of refugees as the whole EU ... not mention the waves of extremists that marching the cities all around the Europe in name of Pegida.
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