If there is an artist with the necessary resume to talk about freedom of expression and censorship, it is Ai Weiwei. And their response to any type of restriction, regardless of who the attempts to silence a voice are against, is no. This 68-year-old multidisciplinary Chinese creator, who suffered persecution and censorship by his government and who today lives in exile in Portugal, has also lived in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, where in 2023 he saw his exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London canceled after making statements on social networks criticizing Israel for its attacks on Gaza. That is why he assures that censorship has no borders and is part of all political systems, including Western democracies.
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