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Four photographs presented vertically. The top photograph depicts a rectangular stack of ice slabs with two red water buckets beside it. The second photograph depicts a group of people gathered around the ice stack. Some hold brushes to the stack, as if cleaning it. The third photograph depicts the stack of ice slabs, now reduced to a small pile of snow by the group of people washing it. The bottom photograph depicts a puddle of water where the stack of ice once was. The group of people are gone, and four red water buckets are set around the water puddle.

Four photographs presented vertically. The top photograph depicts a rectangular stack of ice slabs with two red water buckets beside it. The second photograph depicts a group of people gathered around the ice stack. Some hold brushes to the stack, as if cleaning it. The third photograph depicts the stack of ice slabs, now reduced to a small pile of snow by the group of people washing it. The bottom photograph depicts a puddle of water where the stack of ice once was. The group of people are gone, and four red water buckets are set around the water puddle.

Four photographs presented vertically. The top photograph depicts a rectangular stack of ice slabs with two red water buckets beside it. The second photograph depicts a group of people gathered around the ice stack. Some hold brushes to the stack, as if cleaning it. The third photograph depicts the stack of ice slabs, now reduced to a small pile of snow by the group of people washing it. The bottom photograph depicts a puddle of water where the stack of ice once was. The group of people are gone, and four red water buckets are set around the water puddle.

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Yin Xiuzhen

Yin Xiuzhen 尹秀珍

Washing River 洗河

1995

In 1995, Yin Xiuzhen staged a performance in Chengdu. She made ice bricks with water from a contaminated river, piled them on the riverbank, and asked passersby to wash them clean. During the washing process, the ice would melt and return to the river. The act of washing ice bricks is inconsequential and futile, but it awakens the intimate ties between people and between people and nature.

Details

Object Number:

2012.1287

Object Type:

Photography, Performance

Related Makers:

Yin Xiuzhen (Artist)

Medium:

chromogenic print

Date:

1995

Dimensions:

each (set of 4): 119 × 179.4 cm

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

Copyright:

© Yin Xiuzhen

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.

Yin Xiuzhen Photography Performance Visual Art M+ Sigg Collection

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