艾未未さんのインスタグラム写真 - (艾未未Instagram)「Laziz, 2016 Color video with sound, 14 min. Laziz is a ten-year-old male Bengal tiger. He was smuggled through a tunnel that connects Egypt with Gaza as one of the first animals obtained by the Khan Younis Zoo in Gaza in 2007. Over time, the zoo accumulated hundreds of animals including primates, lions, emus, pelicans and many more. During military conflicts between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas government in 2009 and 2014, several animals were reported to have died, mostly of starvation. In 2015 more than 50 of the deceased animals were taxidermied by the zoo staff and were put on display in the enclosures to attract more visitors to the otherwise deserted zoo. Images of these mummified animals earned the Khan Younis Zoo the reputation of “the world’s worst zoo” by animal welfare groups and international media. In May 2016, Ai Weiwei and his team came to Gaza for a documentary film project about refugees and visited the zoo. By then only 15 of the previous hundreds of animals were still alive, most cages appeared deserted and the animals starving. All other cats, including Laziz’s mate, had died. Laziz remained the last tiger in the Gaza Strip. In August 2016, the animal welfare organization Four Paws International started a rescue mission for the remaining animals of Khan Younis. The zoo was closed and all animals were evacuated from Gaza and brought to animal sanctuaries in neighboring Jordan and Israel. Only Laziz was transferred by plane to the Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa, where he now lives in a large grassy enclosure that supports his natural behavior. The video shows Laziz in a temporary enclosure at the Khan Younis Zoo in June 2016, two months before his rescue. Exhibited at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (2017); Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (2017); Oca, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA (2019) #worldrefugeeday #aiweiwei」6月20日 14時00分