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Where did Ai Weiwei collect the life vests used in his Berlin installation?
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Ai Weiwei collected the 14,000 life vests used for his 2016 installation at the Konzerthaus Berlin on the Greek island of Lesbos. He gathered these items while staying on the island during the height of the Syrian Civil War, where they had been discarded by asylum seekers arriving after perilous sea journeys from Turkey.1