'For Tang Contemporary Zheng Guogu realises Processing Factory, the replica of a factory for optical instruments, a replica that is nevertheless functional. Employees occupy the space and produce optical instruments. The only hints that this is an art work and not a real factory are its location within an art gallery, the visitors, which are evidently an art public, as well as models of workers and spray-painted reproductions of photos taken of former exhibitions of the work. These clues diminish the ambivalence of the given situation: does the location transform the activity or the activity the location? Yet, the actual dislocation created here reduces Processing Factory to a mere assumption. If we consider with Zheng's art as the place where assumptions and hypothesis, can become reality, then a reality placed within such a hypothetical field, changes into nothing but an assumption. Having in mind China’s economic policy and development, including the recent agenda of cultural policy—the enhancement of creative industries—Zheng’s work obtains a particularly critical stance.' (Excerpt from 'Zheng Guogu, Circuit of Endless Possibilities' by Martina Koppel-Yang)

Alongside essays by Martina Koppel-Yang and Li Jianchun, this monograph also features detailed views of Processing Factory and an overview of the artist's oeuvre from 2001 to 2007. With artist interview.