wuwu Collective
August 2024
WUWU collective are artists creating works in solidarity with Uyghurs - making art as resistance, documentation, and remembrance.
WUWU is a play on words:
無無, 勿勿 are used interchangeably to describe the precarious state of surviving under authoritarian regime.
無, meaning “nothing” or “lack of”, references the 2022 #a4revolution when holding up a blank piece of paper became a protest symbol of dissent in China.
無無, 勿勿 are used interchangeably to describe the precarious state of surviving under authoritarian regime.
無, meaning “nothing” or “lack of”, references the 2022 #a4revolution when holding up a blank piece of paper became a protest symbol of dissent in China.
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勿, meaning “no”, “don’t” alludes to the suppression of freedom in speech and movement. It also calls out the international silence on Uyghur genocide, relating to the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". Western symbolism of turning a blind eye to evil .