Ai Weiwei gets haircut from resident refugee camp barber, Idomeni

Chinese Contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei yesterday (17 March) visited a refugee camp in the Greece’s Idomeni, which borders Macedonia. During his visit to the area Ai spent time with refugees and migrants and later got a hair and beard trim from the camp’s resident barber. The artist said of the experience: “I needed a haircut ... And of course, it is obviously symbolic. Anything we do is symbolic,. For me that means I have permanently (left) some of my hairs on this ground and they will never c