Installation view of Yin Xiuzhen's Flying Machine, 2008, used clothes, stainless steel, planks, car, tractor, 353 × 1592 × 1220 cmat the 7th Shanghai Biennale "Translocalmotion," 2008, Shanghai Art Museum. Courtesy the artist.
Power Station of Art announces“Yin Xiuzhen: Piercing the Sky”, the latest solo show of Yin Xiuzhen will feature the profound contemplations about space, time, and human existence by the artist. Curated by Wu Hung, this exhibition uses the ground floor of PSA as its main gallery, showcasing over ten large scale installation pieces, including the eponymous piece Piercing the Sky. Since the 1990s, Yin Xiuzhen has experimented with collective memories and individual emotions in art, creating warming works with daily materials. In this exhibition, she takes inspiration from the heavens and space, combining old items and marks of an era, to discuss the relationships between mankind and the universe, the individual and the collective, inviting the audience to this exploration and debate across heaven and earth.
About the Artist
Yin Xiuzhen currently lives and works in Beijing. Her work explores themes of the past and present, memory, globalization, and homogenization. Yin began her career after earning a BA from Capital Normal University’s Fine Arts Department, Beijing, in 1989. She is best known for her sculptures and installations comprising secondhand objects like clothing, shoes, and suitcases. Inspired by the rapidly changing cultural environment of her native Beijing, Yin arranges and reconfigures these recycled items to draw out their individual and collective histories. Her assembled materials operate as sculptural documents of memory, alluding to the lives of individuals who are often neglected in the drive toward rapid development, excessive urbanization, and the growing global economy.
About the Curator
Wu Hung has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His interest in both traditional and modern/contemporary Chinese art has led him to experiment with different ways to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art historical narratives, as exemplified by his Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (1995), The Double Screen: Medium and Representation of Chinese Pictorial Art (1996), A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (2012), and Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China (2016). Several of his ongoing projects follow this direction to explore the interrelationship between art medium, pictorial image, and architectural space, the dialectical relationship between absence and presence in Chinese art and visual culture, and the relationship between art discourse and practice.
Wu Hung has received many awards for his publications and academic services, among which he is most proud of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching at the University of Chicago (2007) and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Art Association (2008).
Wu Hung is Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and sits on the boards and advisory committees of many research institutes and museums in the United States and China.
About the Exhibition
Curator: Wu Hung
Date: 2024-11-09 ~ 2025-02-16
Venue: Power Station of Art
Courtesy of Power Station of Art.
