Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
United States | 2020
While under house arrest in Beijing, Ai Weiwei remotely transformed Alcatraz, a former US island penitentiary, into a remarkable expression of socially engaged art. Visitors to the installation could write messages of hope to the previously imprisoned activists, featured in Lego portraits. By the end of the exhibition, over 90,000 postcards were sent. Then, astonishingly, prisoners and their fami…
