Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist. He specialized in sculpture, architecture, film, photography, and installation. This piece by Weiwei is called Snake Ceiling. It was completed in 2009 and was installed into the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2013. In May of 2008, a huge earthquake hit China and killed approximately 90,000 people. Ai Weiwei created this piece out of backpacks to remember the 5,000 children who died in this earthquake due to their schools collapsing. I think its interesting to see such a big piece of work all made out of backpacks on a ceiling.
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