Yin xiuzhen biography of alberta

Yin Xiuzhen is a prominent figure in the contemporary Chinese art space. After graduating from Capital Normal University of Beijing in , she quickly began to express her impressions of modernity, industrialization, and changing culture through her sculpture.

Yin cites her childhood as her biggest artistic influence.

The Cultural Revolution ( to ) was an emotionally defining period for her, during which she and her family struggled with poverty, rapidly shifting governmental policy, and a general sense of tumult. She describes this period as being one of “singularity.” Manufacturing practices were changed to prize uniformity.

In that sense, individual objects took on new meaning—when goods were made to look identical in the thousands of units, countless Chinese people could relate to these objects and thus to each other. As she stated in an interview with Phaidon Press,

“My Cultural Revolution experiences directly shaped my working method, wh