Photo Series: Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at Somerset House
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, May 2011
What was a few months back originally scheduled as a press call to interview Ai Weiwei and an opportunity to photograph the artist with his Circle of Animals was altered to a sans artist event due to his disappearance in early April. Currently, Ai Weiwei’s whereabouts are still unknown. Although no explanation was given for his disappearance, it is widely believed Ai Weiwei was detained by Chinese authorities in response to the online publication of a photograph featuring Ai Weiwei naked except for a toy horse covering his genitals along with a caption in Mandarin that could be interpreted as “Fuck your mother, the party central committee.”
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Photo Series: Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at Somerset House
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