Ai Weiwei Presents 'Resetting Memories' Exhibition in Mexico

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The University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico presents the work of renowned international artist and activist Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957). In the exhibition Ai Weiwei. Resetting Memories, Ai Weiwei explores the traumas of experiences in both China and Mexico, in a narrative that calls for the construction of social memory.

Ai Weiwei is recognized for his tireless activism in support of human rights, migration, freedom of expression, and his approach to globalization. His art installations and multifaceted work (he has worked as an architect, writer, and documentary filmmaker, and has pioneered the use of social media through his Twitter account, where he has 366,000 followers) are a powerful social critique of the status quo that has led to censorship, persecution, imprisonment, torture, and exile.

Ai Weiwei. Resetting Memories will be on display at MUAC from April 13 to October 6, 2019 (and will later travel to the MARCO Museum in Monterrey). The exhibition brings together concerns regarding the destruction of cultural heritage with the trauma of attacks on the future, represented by violence against young people.

With this exhibition and the visual monument made of LEGO bricks, MUAC joins the list of prestigious international venues that have exhibited his work, including the Lucas Nogueira Garcez Pavilion, Brazil (2018); Marciano Art Foundation, United States (2018); Proa Foundation, Argentina (2017); National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic (2017); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2016); Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2016); Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2016); the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2015); Alcatraz, San Francisco (2014); Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, Spain (2013); Faurschou Foundation, Beijing (2011); Faurschou Gallery, Denmark (2011); Tate Modern, London (2011); and Haus der Kunst, Germany (2009).