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Refugee Hotspots: Refugee and Chinese Artist

refugee hotspots: The largest individual object by this Chinese artist reflects his intense interest in the fate of refugees, which led him to 40 refugee camps in different locations across the globe, it said, according to CTV. Ai spent the last year visiting such migrant and refugee hotspots as the US-Mexican border badlands to the Turkish-Syrian frontier and crowded holding camps on Greek islands. Called Law of the Journey the 70-metre-long 230-foot-long inflatable boat with 258 oversize refugee figures will be shown from March 16 through the rest of the year, the gallery said. When I first came to Lesbos, we found a half sunken boat there. I wanted to experience what it was like to be there alone, Ai said, quoted in the gallery statement. I asked to be taken to it and sent the other people away. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.