Ai Weiwei: Interlacing offers an in-depth look at the artist’s photographic and video-based work, highlighting his use of media as tools of social observation and political critique.

Rather than treating photography as a secondary medium, Ai Weiwei employs it as a central strategy to document reality, challenge authority, and assert individual agency.

The publication spans his early years in New York, his architectural and urban investigations in China, and his prolific use of digital platforms, including blogs and mobile photography. It reveals how Ai interweaves personal experience, political dissent, and cultural commentary—often with minimal means, but maximum consequence.

Photography for Ai is never neutral: it becomes a witness, a provocation, a fragment of a larger system of meaning. Interlacing captures this dynamic, showing how his work connects the private and the public, the ephemeral and the monumental, the poetic and the political.