"Duchamp had the bicycle wheel, Warhol had the image of Mao. I have a totalitarian regime. It is my readymade." —Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei's custom-made, fully functioning bicycle edition—which the artist says symbolize the innate human desire for free will in expression and mobility—were first exhibited during the Brooklyn Museum’s 2014 retrospective Ai Weiwei: According to What?