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Ai Weiwei artist statement for ‘An archive’

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Gene and Brian Sherman commissioned a new work by Ai Weiwei for the exhibition Go East and he responded by developing An archive 2015, a calligraphic recollection of his blogging and internet activity from 2005 to 2013.