Artist covers Berlin concert hall with discarded refugee lifejackets
An artist critical of the EU’s response to the ongoing refugee crisis has covered a famous concert house in Berlin with 14,000 lifejackets discarded by asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos.
According to Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, each jacket wrapped around the columns of the Berlin’s Konzerthaus symbolizes the single life of a refugee who stepped upon the shores of Lesbos with the hopes of a new beginning.
The installation took roughly a month to prepare and was unveiled in coordination with the Cinema for Peace 2016 gala held inside the building.
Upon entering, guests were also requested to pose for pictures draped in metallic emergency blankets, similar to those adorned by newly arrived refugees on European shores.
The EU is currently dealing with the worst refugee crisis since the World War II. In 2015 alone well over a million asylum seekers fleeing conflict in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries arrived on European shores.
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