Camouflage opens 10 September at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, directly across from the United Nations, coinciding with the 2025 UN General Assembly. The installation drapes the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms memorial in fabric printed with silhouettes of cats that reinterpret camouflage patterns used for wartime concealment. The tent-like structure, supported by scaffolding, will both protect and shroud the memorial dedicated to freedom of speech, religion, from want and from fear. The project launches Art X Freedom, an annual public-art commissioning programme at Four Freedoms Park to inspire conversation about social justice and attract more visitors to the park. The park was designed by Louis Kahn in 1973 and realised in 2012.
Ai Weiwei's public art installation Camouflage goes on view 10 September at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, directly across the East River from the United Nations and in tandem with its 2025 General Assembly-the 80th session since its founding at the end of the Second World War. At the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, designed by the architect Louis Kahn in 1973
"It is a deeply militarized symbol," Ai says of the tent-like structure, supported by scaffolding, that protects, or shrouds, the memorial celebrating Roosevelt's Four Freedoms-of speech, of religion, from want and from fear-espoused in his 1941 presidential address to the US Congress. "Presenting such an installation is necessary in a world marked by ongoing wars and the threat of even greater conflict."
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