To make the point that all institutions are equally suspect, he created an exhibition entitled “Fuck off,” in which he shows photographs of himself with an obscene hand gesture in front of famous monuments: the Doge’s palace in Venice, once the commercial capital of the world, the Eiffel Tower, the White House, and the Forbidden City in Beijing. His latest exhibition’s title mocks the recent (and almost universal) tendency of governments to offer meaningless apologies for past mistakes: it is called “So sorry.”
中国非主流艺术家艾未未在时代氛围中敏锐地捕捉到一种四处弥漫、无药可救的玩世不恭。为了表达一切制度都信不过的观点，他策划了一个主题为“Fuck off”（滚蛋）的展览，展示了一组照片，照片上的他冲着世界著名的地标性建筑做下流手势：威尼斯（一度身为世界商业首都）的总督府、法国埃菲尔铁塔、美国白宫和北京的紫禁城。他正在策划的下一个展览，把嘲讽的矛头指向近来的一种（几乎是普遍的）趋势——各国政府为所犯的错误进行毫无意义的道歉，所以其主题是“So sorry”（很抱歉）。