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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. Specialising 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, colours, 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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"About touch and tactility, craft and value, and the colors of memory...-- ""E-flux"" Matching the heritage of its content, the book itself strives for a sense of nostalgia; particularly in the contextually vital consideration for the book's own tactility.-- ""The Brand Identity"""

Matching the heritage of its content, the book itself strives for a sense of nostalgia; particularly in the contextually vital consideration for the book's own tactility.-- The Brand Identity

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"XIAOWEN ZHU (*1986, Shanghai) calls herself a ""visual poet and aesthetic researcher."" For her artistic studies she combines diverse materials and media to create an experience that articulates the specific world she inhabits. She lives in Berlin."

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