Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han-Dynasty Urn, 1995 (detail), © Ai Weiwei |
Ever since he returned to China, Ai has tirelessly documented everyday realities of the urban environment and society. The photographs of the radical changes to the urban built fabric, the search for earthquake victims, and the destruction of his Shanghai studio will be presented along with art-photographic projects, the documenta Fairytale project and mobile-phone photographs.