14 Sep – 30 Nov 2025
Kyiv, Ukraine
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RIBBON International will debut Ai Weiwei’s Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms Painted White at Pavilion 13, marking the artist’s first commission in Ukraine. Conceived as a site-specific installation, the work continues Ai’s investigation into the material and symbolic traces of conflict, transforming ideologically charged objects into reflections on contemporary struggles and shared human experience.
Referencing Leonardo da Vinci’s Divina Proportione, the piece engages with Enlightenment ideals of harmony and rational order while questioning their appropriation in contexts of war and concealment. By juxtaposing mathematical precision with objects tied to militarized histories, Ai underscores the fragile line between ideals of progress and the realities of violence, positioning the installation within his broader humanist and pacifist practice.
Ai WeiWei says: ‘That is the challenge, to build new works relating to what I feel, to me in the past and to the current situation. Art is more metaphysical. You cannot really give every description, but you can always suggest a gesture or attitude or some kind of symbolic meaning, more like a poetic gesture.’
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