Ai Weiwei's Slippery Truths: Home, Exile, and the Fragility of Freedom
- Leilani Lewis
- May 13
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 5
Published by Public Display Art | April 10, 2025
Overview
In this feature essay for PublicDisplay.art, Leilani Lewis explores Ai, Rebel, the Seattle Art Museum’s retrospective on dissident artist Ai Weiwei. With sharp insight and personal reflection, she weaves together the exhibit’s political urgency, institutional critique, and emotional resonance, making a case for art as both resistance and reminder.
