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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s refugee statement: 1,005 life jackets floating in Vienna palace pond
The dissident artist’s latest installation in Austrian capital, addressing the tragedy of Europe’s refugee crisis, consists of 201 rings each holding five life jackets and floating like lotus flowers
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s installation F Lotus, made of life vests floating on the pond at Vienna’s Belvedere Palace. Photo: AP
Visitors to Vienna’s Belvedere Palace have been confronted with 1,005 refugees’ life jackets drifting in the baroque pond – courtesy of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei.
The installation, entitled F. Lotus, consists of 201 rings each holding five life jackets – retrieved from the Greek island of Lesbos – arranged in the letter “F” and floating like lotus flowers.