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THE COLLECTIONS · TWO EXHIBITIONS

Manuscripts
& collections.

Look closely. A stitch, a script, a worn page.
Each offers a different way into the lives around an object.

化雨楼古籍专藏 · HUAYULOU

A catalogue you can explore.

203 scanned files, alongside an earlier register of 201 entries. Browse original titles, recorded classifications, and available reading copies.

An open manuscript spread on yellowed paper, covered in vertical columns of handwritten characters with small red marks among the black ink.

EXHIBITION 01 · Manuscripts · Southeast Asia

A world in handwritten pages

Begin with manuscripts, then follow the questions of language, digitization, and access.

Two embroidered phoenix-like birds face one another, with long curling tails in red, green, and black thread on pale silk.

EXHIBITION 02 · Embroidered album · c. 1750

Wonders, stitched in silk

Enter an eighteenth-century album where pictures are made from thread.

A COLLECTION IS A BEGINNING

Look. Read. Connect.

Meet the materials

Open the photographs at your own pace. Every image has a text description.

Stay with a question

Compare the images with inscriptions, recorded histories and my close reading of the object.

Follow its afterlife

Continue into fieldwork, transcription, and the research built around these materials.

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