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DREAM LABOR PRESS

Dream Labor Press is a self-publishing collective founded by a group of Chinese female graphic designer-authors who are based in the United States and China. Our work focuses on storytelling and fiction-making in the liminal space between places and identities.

By means of zines, artist books and other small publications, we play with objects, symbols and memories. We endeavor to communicate layered narratives that resonate with different walks of audiences and to push the boundaries of design.

CURRENT MEMBERS

Doris Liu
Zia Qian
Lexi Xu
Lihao Zhu
Zhenyu Zhou

FAIRS & EVENTS
Brooklyn Art Book Fair, 2024
Other Islands Book Fair, 2024
打开——Open M Art Fair by abC, 2024
Multiple Formats Art Book Fair, 2024
Press Play by Pioneer Works, 2023
Detroit Art Book Fair, 2023

STOCKISTS
Accent Sisters Studio
MCBA Online Shop

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Doris Liu
2023

4.5 x 8 inch
Perfect binding, french folds
48/46/40 pages

Concentrating on the overlapped realm of photography and travel, this project attempts to imagine this topic with an encouraging vision. The project takes its form in a set of three photobooks, exploring how the photographic practice is able to actively intervene and transform our embodied experience, not replace it.

In each volume, the photographs are deliberately curated and "installed" within the printed mediums, constructing immersive ways of viewing similar to an exhibition in a physical space. Each volume respectively activates the three aspects of experience (Time, Space and Sociality) that are altered and transformed under the mediation of the photo-taking act.

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