Ai Weiwei - Mask with Middle Finger

Tijdens het uitbrengen van deze serie in 2020 gekocht. De envelop waarin het certificaat en het masker zit is nog ongeopend. Altijd in de kast tussen boeken gestaan.  
Ai was at home in Cambridge when he began getting angry about face mask news stories including the US being accused of “modern piracy”, accused of taking masks meant for Germany.
It was almost laughable, he said. “It is such a waste. There is so much argument around the mask. A face mask weighs only three grams but it carries so much state argument about global safety and who has it and who doesn’t have it.”

He printed a wood carving on to a mask and put it on Instagram. People loved it and asked how they could get hold of one. From that came his new art project.

The images have been silk-screened by hand in Berlin on to non-surgical cloth face masks. Ai predicts people will buy them to collect rather than wear.