Oriental Silk 鄉綢
English, Chinese

Graphic design by Studio Cheval

Translation by Nicky Harman

196 pp., 51 ills.

Linen Hardcover

17.80 x 24.10 cm

ISBN 978-3-7757-4785-1

Year
2020
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
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Can corporate history be art? This question can only be asked if one is not familiar with the fascinating long-term project by the Chinese artist Xiaowen Zhu. Anyone who has experienced Oriental Silk will answer this question with a clear “yes.” The project’s title is also the name of a company founded in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Specializing in trading and distributing silks, it was headed for decades by Kenneth Wong and his family. Through her multi-sensory works Zhu opens up a multifaceted view of a firm that is distinguished, like its silk products, through its own haptics, style, colors, and values. The people, places, and stories that make up the phenomenon of Oriental Silk form a fascinating, vivid tapestry in which the past and present, art and life, are closely interwoven.
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