Synopsis

The cut-out patterns are from my father’s book Book cover collection in the West, which was published in 1988, when China’s leaders launched their great reform and opening up to embrace the world. Many leading concepts of book cover design were introduced in the book and this book had an eye-opening influence on the younger generation of Chinese designers since then. Driven by the idea of “revisiting through returning”, beginning in May 2013, I have been collecting, cutting out and collaging those book cover prints from the Book cover collection in the Westback on to Western secondhand books that I acquired over the years.

Lei Lei

Lei Lei was born in 1985 in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, and received his master's degree in animation from Tsinghua University in 2009. He has made award-winning animation films, installations and live music presented around the festival circuit, in museums and galleries. Since 2017 he has worked at CalArts, where he is a full-time faculty member at the department of Experimental Animation.