/TRACE/was initially created for the lugubrious island fortress of
Alcatraz federal prison, now a tourist site but by no means softened for
sensitive visitors. Understandably, Ai considered this an appropriate
setting for his eloquent tribute to fellow troublemakers, entirely
designed and executed in 2-dimensional arrangements of Lego
pieces./TRACE/is as politically candid, and yet deeply personal, as
another series of his, S.A.C.R.E.D. (2013), six dioramas of doll-scale
figures in steel boxes viewed from above and through peepholes,
illustratinghis 81 days in prison — with ever-present guards hovering
over his every daily routine in a sustained ritual of humiliation. Ai
intimately grasps the peril of speaking truth to power.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/talking-to-ai-weiwei/
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