Photo Essay: Nick Cave and Ai Weiwei

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Images 1 & 2 connection: Phallic symbol and sexuality

Images 2 & 3 connection: Sense of perpetual waiting and contemplation

Images 3 & 4 connection: Notion of power and black pride

Images 4 & 5: Gesture of solidarity

Images 5 & 6: Connotations of loyalty

Images 6 & 7: Chaotic design and use of what appear as old, colorful objects of embellishment and of no particular use. Both figures (the dog and the black child) are positioned on stools and are somewhat surrounded by the matrix of artifacts.

Images 7 & 8: Include a common or similar item: one that would be used to hit an object. The item is either close to the face of the statuette depicting a black child (Image 7) or in the shape of a black individual’s face (Image 8).

Images 8 & 9: Distortion and caricaturization of a black man’s head. Both are objects of service representing aggressive acts taking place.

I like to think critically about art’s role in today’s society: the way it is used for communicating experience, issues and how it stimulates personal interaction and imagination.

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