Ai Weiwei’s follow-up to Human Flow is a sharp and moving account of today’s refugee situation. The Rest focuses on Europe, the world’s defender of human rights, as it closed its borders to thousands of refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan. They sought refuge in France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Sweden, and Turkey, but most have not found the safe havens they wished for. Now they are no longer the centre of media attention, put to rest, so to speak, and yet unable to move forward and simply live.
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