AI WEIWEI, Camouflage, 2025. Rendering of installation looking Southwest. Image © Ai Weiwei
10/09/2025
site-specific installation
Public art project New York
Art X Freedom
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park
New York, NY, USA
10/09/2025 - 01/12/2025
Ai Weiwei unveils a major public art project at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, inaugurating the new Art X Freedom initiative.
Titled Camouflage, the installation transforms the park’s monumental architecture with custom-designed netting patterned not with military motifs, but with playful animal silhouettes—subverting symbols of war with empathy and wit. Known for his bold, politically charged interventions, Weiwei turns the historic site into a space of reflection on protection, vulnerability, and the meaning of freedom today.