An Essay on Xu Zhen
Published by Kaleidoscope Asia The moment you label something, you take a step – I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.
—Andy Warhol Out of a need for comprehension, we like putting labels on artists. But the labels of our
age are not made of elegant, smooth matte vinyl lettering, shimmering in a white cube:
they are the hashtag