Ai Weiwei. Disposition

This publication accompanies Ai Weiwei’s exhibition Disposition at Lisson Gallery in London, presenting a focused selection of work that

investigates the relationship between physical presence, political condition, and spatial experience.

In Disposition, Ai Weiwei continues his long-standing engagement with issues of visibility, power, and human rights. The works featured in the book explore how objects, architectural elements, and personal traces become carriers of memory and negotiation within contexts of displacement, suppression, and social transformation. Through photography, sculpture, installation, and found materials, the artist foregrounds the conditions under which individuals and communities are seen or rendered invisible.

The publication documents the exhibition’s installations and configurations, offering images and texts that articulate Ai Weiwei’s practice of reframing everyday materials and situations as political and aesthetic statements. Rather than presenting discrete “works,” Disposition highlights processes of arrangement, encounter, and reflection—suggesting that both art and exhibition are fields of inquiry into how meaning and agency are constructed.

By situating these works within the context of Lisson Gallery, the book also engages with the gallery space itself as a site of negotiation between institution, viewer, and artwork, underlining Ai Weiwei’s ongoing interest in the politics of display and engagement.