Manufacturing Aesthetics

Veronika Wenger et al.
Songshan Lake
Boxes Art Museum
Dongguan
09.29 – 12.10
2026

Curator
Wang Jian

Academic Support
Xu Yanzhuan
Zhang Yanhong
XieLi

Exhibition Director
Liu Ke
Ji Ran

Guiding Organization
Publicity, Education, Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau.
Administrative Committee of Dongguan Songshan Lake
High-Tech Industrial Development Zone

Organizer
GAFA-DGUT Manufacturing Aesthetics Joint Laboratory

Co-organized
International School of Design, DGUT

Support Organization
Guangdong Ruihua Optoelectronic Technology Co. Ltd.,
Dongguan Weishi Culture Technology Co. Ltd..
Guangdong Jingda Environmental Protection Technology Co. Ltd.

For the project Manufacturing Aesthetics at the Songshan Lake Boxes Art Museum, I developed a series of analog drawings on paper and colored foil on site. The supports are paper and foil in gold, silver, and copper tones, whose color values I derived from the visual identities of the three participating companies 睿华玻璃 (Ruihua Glass), 微石集团 / 拼酷 (Wist Group / Piececool), 净达环保 (Jingda Environmental Protection). On these surfaces, I explore drawing in the sense of Disegno and communication: the line as a world-operation. The drawings emerge in process during my stay, directly in the exhibition space, where they are also presented.

Six color tones are derived from each of the three companies; printed as paper/foil, they form the drawing material: