04/25/2026
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折手* Signature*
材料 Medium: 胶印印版（铝板） Offset Printing Plate (Aluminum)
尺寸 Dimensions: 540 × 900 mm
时间 Year : 2026
The offset printing plates (aluminum) could be considered the most temporary yet most complete remains within the printing production line. As transfer surface, it is effectively single-use, its role ending once the image is printed. As recyclable metal, however, it continues to circulate, re-entering industrial production in other forms.
Inside the printing workshop, the hands of account managers, plate makers, and press operators appear as ghost images of labor surrounding the massive machinery. Only fingerprints leave momentary marks on the aluminum plates. Here, ghostly labor and the soon-to-be-discarded plates are temporarily retained together. If this work could be considered a “creation,” whose creation is it? Within this new transfer of value, can surplus labor become visible? And in its next cycle of recycling, what form of labor will it participate in?
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“Signature,” in its general sense, refers to signing or identification. In printing, it denotes the mark placed on each folded unit to indicate its sequence within a gathering—an index of recognition and responsibility within the production process. Its Chinese counterpart, zhe shou (折手), literally “fold” (折) and “hand” (手), refers to a printed sheet folded one or multiple times into an independent binding unit, measured by the scale of the human hand and shaped through repeated manual operations.
On view now:
春眠不觉晓 Spring Awakening 2026
春⻛吹⼜⽣
Make and Remake to Make Anew
展期 Duration: 2026.3.20–5.9
开放时间 Opening hours: 周三 Wed–周日 Sun，10:00-18:00
地址 Location: 清影艺术空间，杭州市 紫荆花路2号 联合大厦A座 一单元301
Inna Art Space, 301 Unit 1 Tower A, Lianhe Building, No.2 Zijinghua Road, Hangzhou
