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Monday 3 November 2014

AI WEIWEI: NewYork Photographs 1983 - 1993

On now up at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC, is controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, with an exhibit of photographs taken during his time in New York City from 1983 - 1993.






The exhibit "consists of 227 black-and-white photographs taken by the artist during the decade that he resided in New York City, his first time away from China. The photographs were personally selected by the artist from over 10,000 negatives that are housed at Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing and together represent a single work of art—no one image is more important than another. The exhibition is complemented by a 43-minute video interview with Ai Weiwei by Zheng Shengtian and videographer Don Li-Leger that discusses his growing up during the Cultural Revolution and his time in New York."

The Ai Weiwei New York Photographs exhibit is on now until November 30th at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC. 

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