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Xiaowen Zhu's Book Signing at Leipzig Photobook Festival

  • Writer: Xiaowen Zhu
    Xiaowen Zhu
  • Mar 17, 2022
  • 1 min read

On Sunday, March 20, 2022, Xiaowen Zhu will sign her book Oriental Silk at the Leipzig Photobook Festival hosted by GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts.



About the Book:


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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