Ai Weiwei – Translocation – Transformation is a publication that accompanies an exhibition project by Ai Weiwei exploring movement, displacement, and cultural change as artistic material and social condition.

The book situates Translocation and Transformation not as static themes but as interlinked processes: translocation describes the shifting of people, objects, and meanings across borders and contexts, while transformation names the change that occurs in and through these movements. In Ai Weiwei’s work, these ideas surface through practices such as collecting, archiving, re-contextualizing found materials, and staging installations that bring histories and narratives into direct contact.

Rather than presenting artworks as isolated objects, the publication frames them as situations that activate memory, materiality, and social relations. Photographic documentation, essays, and project texts illustrate how installation, sculpture, and spatial intervention become ways of negotiating histories of migration, cultural hybridity, and the politics of visibility.

Translocation – Transformation offers insights into how Ai Weiwei’s art engages with global conditions of mobility and change. It foregrounds the interplay between personal and collective histories, showing how artistic practice can translate lived experience into forms that question the boundaries of place, identity, and structure—inviting reflection on how we inhabit an ever-mobile world.