OTHER POSTS
Silence is a source of great strength.
~ Lao Tzu
1/11 Art: Ai Wei Wei’s installation ‘he xie’
Ai Wei Wei’s ground-bound installation ‘he xie’ collects the forms of hundreds porcelain crabs situated in a heap in the main exhibition space. The work is saturated in social symbolism; ‘he xie’ translates to ‘river crab’ but sounds very similar to the mandarin word meaning ‘harmonization’, the state’s euphemism suggesting censorship. The political double meaning […]
“There is a higher court than the courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”
~Mahatma Ghandi