'Letgo Room' at Andy Warhol Ai Wei Wei Exhibition

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Fri 11 Dec 2015 - Sun 24 Apr 2016

'Letgo Room' at Andy Warhol | Ai Wei Wei Exhibition

Ai Weiwei has announced that he will donate his major new installation Letgo Room, 2015, to the National Gallery of Victoria .



The work was commissioned by the NGV for the exhibition Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei which opened on December 11 2015. Incorporating more than two million plastic building blocks the work features portraits of twenty Australian activists, advocates and champions of human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of information and freedom of the internet.



Portrait subjects include Julian Assange, Geoffrey Robertson QC, Peter Greste, Professor Gillian Triggs, Rosie Batty, The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, Archie Roach, Julian Burnside AO QC and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, among others from the fields of international law and academia, social welfare, media, community activism in support of indigenous people, asylum seekers, sex workers and the gender non-specific, among other contexts.



In the past weeks a team of almost 100 local volunteers and arts students constructed the portraits on Ai's behalf.



The work attests to Ai's long-standing commitment to freedom of expression and human rights, which is variously manifest in his work as an artist, social commentator, activist and public intellectual.

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