BEING
AI WEIWEI
BY
GAZELLE
EMAMI
PHOTOGRAPHS
BY
MARK
G.
Of everything discussed in an 80-minute interview
at Ai Weiwei’s studio on the outskirts of Beijing –
including his 81-day detention, the government’s
iron hold on his passport and the tax case that would
never end — nothing roused the dissident artist
so much as his fellow Chinese artists who stayed
silent during his disappearance, while the Western
art world cried, “Where is Ai Weiwei?”