Manufacturing Aesthetics

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

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: