I chose forever bicycle by him. Forever bicycles have always featured in Chinese artist Ai WeiWei’s installations. As the years have passed, his use of bicycles has only gotten grander as is evident in his piece titled the Forever Bicycles. The artist used forever bicycles also partly in recognition of the huge role that bicycles play in Chinese society. Some editions of the work were composed of 1000 bicycles installed in a 10meters high space in abstract shapes designed to symbolize the social environment in China. He opted to used bikes and not any other object because bicycle was important to him and his community as he was growing up. As a matter of fact, bicycles are still commonly used in China today for transportation so Ai used them because he thought that the audience would relate to them. The use of the forever bikes as a medium had an element of poignancy; that although bikes symbolized freedom and movement in china, the fact that they were stuck together in the piece could point to the status of the Chinese society today. He made sure to remove all the vital components that make the bike functional such as the seats and pedals, which set the artist on a path of abstraction which later then gave him the opportunity to introduce ambiguity to the subject, as well as play around with different patterns.
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