PRESSPRINT

PRESSPRINT is my artistic studio, founded in 2019 in Chengdu, China, focusing on printmaking and artist books. Through print-based techniques, I create artist books that explore the relationship between image, material, and book form.
My work engages with spatial perception, visual narration, and the tactile qualities of printed matter, treating the book as an artistic medium rather than only a reading format.
Alongside self-publishing, I develop small editions and handbound artist books, and I am currently seeking opportunities for publishing collaboration. In the future, my practice will increasingly be based in Germany, where I aim to expand my artistic and publishing work.

Xiao Xiao, Today is the Next Day, Self-published, 2023, © Xiao Xiao

Artist book exploring temporal displacement and language breakdown.

A protagonist enters the space of “tomorrow,” where language changes daily and communication becomes delayed and unstable.

Technique: Artist book, print-based (intaglio and relief, reproduced as giclée)

Format: 9 × 13 cm

Binding: Leporello (accordion book)

Edition: 200 copies, hand-signed

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Xiao Xiao, Kleine Dinge vom Leben, Self-published, 2021, © Xiao Xiao

Artist book exploring small and often overlooked moments of everyday life.
Through delicate black-and-white intaglio prints, the work gives ordinary scenes a quiet and poetic presence.

Technique: Artist book, intaglio (etching, aquatint)
Format: 162 × 168 mm
Binding: Hand-sewn
Paper: Arches paper, 210 g
Edition: 10 copies
Pages: 12
Year: 2021

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Absurd Paradise is an ongoing series of Intaglio prints exploring the human condition within unfamiliar and shifting environments.
A bald, genderless figure appears throughout the series as a distilled symbol of human existence, beyond specific identity or desire. The works reflect the tension between adaptation and alienation in an imagined world.
The series currently consists of around 10 prints and continues to develop, with each work forming a fragment of an unfinished narrative.

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