Ai Weiwei Button Up! Curator Tours

Join Creative Director Kee Hong Low for a curatorial tour of Ai Weiwei: Button Up! Want to know more about Ai Weiwei’s practice, his monumental exhibition Button Up! and the stories behind the artworks? Join a tour led by Button Up! curator and Factory International Creative Director Kee Hong Low. Ai Weiwei is known around the world for his uncompromising artistic vision and political activism. From a childhood in exile to surviving secret detention in China, his remarkable life and career have led him to global prominence. Using sculpture, installation, film, photography and architecture, his work is unafraid to ask urgent, critical questions. In Button Up!, the artist turns his lens on two centuries of Chinese and British relations. Taking inspiration from Manchester, a city at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, Button Up! explores how historic systems of trade, empire and exploit