Yin Xiuzhen 尹秀珍

Yin Xiuzhen’s practice is concerned with promoting conversations about society, particularly in her native China. Influenced by the ’85 New Wave Movement that swept through artistic circles in China during the mid to late 1980s, she abandoned traditional oil painting after her graduation from Capital Normal University, Beijing in 1989 and began investigating the artistic potential of installation.

Yin Xiuzhen is known for using second-hand or recycled domestic objects and creating sculptural forms that engage with communal memory, the fragility of the human environment, rapid urbanisation, environmental decline and globalisation. Through her interaction with these ‘abandoned’ or ‘scavenged’ materials, Yin Xiuzhen’s work also brings into focus questions of personal and cultural identity.

Submitted by Anna Schwartz Gallery