Mai Ling. NOT YOUR ORNAMENT

Format: 17 x 24 cm

Details: Softcover, 88 pages

Series design concept: Sabo Day

Graphic design: Sabo Day, Rosen Eveleigh

Texts: Anne Anlin Cheng, Mai Ling, Banu Subramaniam, Weina Zhao (conversation)

Languages: German, English

Ca. 80 images

Secession 2023

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln

ISBN 978-3-7533-0523-3

EUR 18.-

Mai Ling’s first monograph is published on occasion of their exhibition NOT YOUR ORNAMENT at the Secession, September 15–November 12, 2023. It includes a conversation between the Asian diaspora association Perilla and the Vienna-based artists’ collective Mai Ling as well as an excerpt from Anne Anlin Cheng’s book Ornamentalism (2019), translated into German by Nicole Suzuki. Artistic intervention: Stick Together, kudzu bioplastic stickers produced in Vienna by Mai Ling and placed on the dust jacket. Each sticker has a different shape and size.