Following a trip to China, Cristina de Middel proposes a reinterpretation of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung–or the second top selling book after the Bible. In Party, her revised edition resembling a facsimile, De Middel censored some of the original phrases with Tipp-Ex, leaving a succession of words on each page forming an unexpected meaning. To accompany this personal and iconoclastic vision, on each page of the book she inserted a photograph that she has taken to reflect the new version of the text.
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