Dress Box 衣箱

1995

Yin Xiuzhen placed pieces of her childhood clothing in a small wooden chest and sealed it with cement. The act of entombing the past while experiencing China’s fast-paced transformation reveals Yin’s ongoing investigations into personal experience and memory.

Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk

Details

Object Number:

2012.1282

Object Type:

Installation, Video

Related Makers:

Yin Xiuzhen (Artist)

Medium:

wooden trunk lined with paper, clothes, cement, bronze plaque, and single-channel VHS tape transferred to digital video (colour, silent)

Date:

1995

Dimensions:

overall (closed): 38 × 67.5 × 44.5 cm; overall (open): 72 × 67.5 × 44.5 cm; duration: 21 min. 31 sec.

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

About the Maker:

Yin Xiuzhen (born 1963, Beijing) graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Capital Normal University, Beijing, in 1989. Her work explores globalisation and urbanisation. Yin lives and works in Beijing.

M+ Exhibition History

M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, 12 November 2021 to 30 July 2023
M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, 23 February 2016 to 05 April 2016

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