"This is my first exhibition in India,” Ai Weiwei says. It is a simple statement, but one that arrives long overdue and highly anticipated in a career defined by constant movement across borders, media, and political contexts. Presented at Nature Morte, New Delhi, from January 15 to February 22, the untitled exhibition is part of India Art Fair’s parallel programme. Though compact in scale, the show functions as a condensed meditation on the concerns that have shaped Ai’s work over nearly three decades.
“Although there are only a dozen of my artworks,” he explains, “it covers several key points that trace almost 30 years of my creative activity.” The exhibition is not conceived as a survey, but as a set of intersections: between past, present, cultural inheritance, and contemporary language.