Beijing (CNN)Contemporary artist and outspoken dissident Ai Weiwei did not show off his recently-returned passport, a day after Chinese authorities lifted his four-year international travel ban. Instead, he offered a simple, quiet smile.
"My heart is at peace. I feel quite relieved," Ai said, in an exclusive interview with CNN in Beijing.
"Every human or citizen needs -- if they travel -- they need a passport. And mine [was] taken away with no clear reason. And now it's back."
The artist, modestly dressed in shorts and an untucked, buttoned-down blue shirt, spoke at the galleries in Beijing where he says he's been displaying his first solo exhibit in the country of his birth.
"I never really exhibited in China -- never really put out a show by myself," he said.
Beijing (CNN)Contemporary artist and outspoken dissident Ai Weiwei did not show off his recently-returned passport, a day after Chinese authorities lifted his four-year international travel ban. Instead, he offered a simple, quiet smile."My heart is at peace. I feel quite relieved," Ai said, in an exclusive interview with CNN in Beijing. "Every human or citizen needs -- if they travel -- they need a passport. And mine [was] taken away with no clear reason. And now it's back."The artist, modestly dressed in shorts and an untucked, buttoned-down blue shirt, spoke at the galleries in Beijing where he says he's been displaying his first solo exhibit in the country of his birth."I never really exhibited in China -- never really put out a show by myself," he said.
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