‘Human Flow’ is Ai Weiwei’s film on the plight of refugees in 23 countries. The artist goes further than Picasso, who never got as far as Guernica himself, but did Ai Weiwei lose his way whilst making the film? Georges Didi-Huberman insists that human suffering on this scale calls for a much bolder critical spirit.
Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman is a French philosopher and art historian. He teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.