Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese-Australian artist who lonesome a diorama of Tiananmen Square in belligerent pig is to be deported from China, according to Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

Artist Guo Jian’s 2014 installation, “The Square”, consists of a indication of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square lonesome in 160 kilograms of belligerent pork.

Guo showed images of a diorama to a contributor for a form square published in a Financial Times on May 30.

Friends contend a artist was incarcerated shortly after a story and a images were published.

According to a FT article, Guo had progressing lonesome a diorama with tiny bulldozers, jackhammers and other wrecking equipment.

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Guo Jian’s “The Square” (2014)

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“The army is regarded as a loveable institution. But during Tiananmen we satisfied it’s not, they will kill we if systematic to,” he was quoted as saying.

‘Visa-related’ matter

According to a DFAT spokesman, consular officers visited Guo in Beijing on Jun 5. They pronounced Chinese authorities pronounced Guo was being hold on a “visa-related matter” and would be deported after 15 days’ detention.

Amnesty International’s China researcher William Nee pronounced a timing of Guo’s deportation was “incredibly odd,” given a artist has worked in a nation for a series of years.

“It seems impossibly peculiar timing that right after he gives an talk that is really relocating to a FT and he comes out with a really intolerable and relocating square of artwork, that is a time that a supervision decides to catch him about a visa-related issue,” Nee said.

“As distant as we know, he did not leave a nation or get incarcerated for some other separate event. It was roughly positively due to his leisure of countenance that a supervision did not approve of,” he added.

Born in China, Guo assimilated a PLA in a late 1970s during a recruitment expostulate to support a Sino-Vietnamese war, according to his website. He was only 17 years old.

After withdrawal a army, Guo worked as a promotion officer for a ride association and after complicated art in Beijing. He told a FT he witnessed sharpened nearby Tiananmen Square on a night of a massacre, and saw bodies built outward a internal hospital.

“Walking into a hospital, walking into a puncture room packaged with bodies, a smell was most stronger than in my studio. we only couldn’t do anything and wanted to chuck up. we was shocked, angry, unhappy and hopeless,” he told a FT.

After a Tiananmen crackdown, Guo changed to Australia where he became a citizen and lived for 13 years.

‘Don’t call me’

On Monday, one of Guo’s friends told CNN he’d called Guo to plead a FT article. No one answered, though a artist texted him shortly after to contend he was “with police,” followed by another SMS: “don’t call me”.

The crony pronounced Guo was wakeful of a provocative inlet of his work. “He’s not naïve about this stuff,” he said.

Prior to finishing a project, Guo asked a crony not to tell anyone about it, for fear that a authorities would stop him from operative on it.

Ahead of a 25th anniversary of a Tiananmen massacre, authorities opposite a nation arrested a series of distinguished dissidents and critics of a government.