[D66] Ai Weiwei Protests Outrageous New Danish Refugee Law By Closing Copenhagen Show Early

[J.N.]

http://art-sheep.com/ai-weiwei-protest-outrageous-new-danish-refugee-law-by-closing-copenhagen-show-early/

After the outrageous law that allows authorities to search 
asylum-seeking refugees’ homes and confiscate their belongings recently 
passed in Denmark, Ai Weiwei protested by closing his show at the 
Faurschou Foundation in Copenhagen.

The artist told the Guardian, “My moments with refugees in the past 
months have been intense. I see thousands come daily, children, babies, 
pregnant women, old ladies, a young boy with one arm. They come with 
nothing, barefoot, in such cold, they have to walk across the rocky 
beach. Then you have this news; it made me feel very angry. The way I 
can protest is that I can withdraw my works from that country. It is 
very simple, very symbolic – I cannot co-exist, I cannot stand in front 
of these people, and see these policies. It is a personal act, very 
simple; an artist trying not just to watch events but to act, and I made 
this decision spontaneously.”