Representations of animals are ubiquitous: from advertising hoardings, newspapers, books, magazines, and television shows, to the hundreds of thousands of images uploaded every day to the Internet. During the last twenty years, artists, too, have engaged with the animal in an effort to articulate more “beastly” visions.

A few years after the "digital turn". the change from analog to digital production and storage of images. asks the Fotomuseum Winterthur in the exhibition Status - 24 documents

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.