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Yin Xiuzhen, <i>International Flight</i>, 2001-2004
Yin Xiuzhen, International Flight, 2001-2004 Installation: Aluminium frame, secondhand clothing. Dimensions: approximately 7000 x 6000 x 2000 mm. Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of Biennale of Sydney. Photography by Jenni Carter.

Venue Art Gallery of New South Wales

Born 1963, Beijing, China
Lives and works in Beijing

Most Australians travel widely. Around the world, the invention of the jumbo jet in 1970 has been the catalyst for great political, economic and social changes. Made from discarded clothes, International Flight and Portable Cities refer to the processes and effects of travel on memory and the imagination.

International Flight has a life and energy of its own. This piece has been exhibited before in Beijing, Singapore and San Francisco. In each city the work is slightly different because of the different types of clothes that are donated in each location for the project. Yin Xiuzhen uses discarded clothes as a way to make intimate connections between different bodies, communities, occupations, locations and experiences. Similarly the series Portable Cities (2004) uses found materials. The brightly coloured fabric cityscapes feature well known landmarks. Such structures often become symbols that are said to reflect the specific identity of that place. Yin Xiuzhen has made four new suitcase cities for On Reason and Emotion - Paris, Lisbon, Hong Kong and Sydney.

Yin Xiuzhen's art explores how individual life experiences operate in the context of broad issues and in the links between external appearances and internal responses.

Yin Xiuzhen's work in the 2004 Biennale of Sydney is supported by Sherman Galleries

Images courtesy of the artist.


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Yin XiuzhenInternational Flight, 2002. Steel, used clothing, 600 X 750 x 200cm each.
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image: Yin Xiuzhen, <i>Portable Cities¬-Guangzhou, Lisbon, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Wellington</i>, 2002¬2004
Yin Xiuzhen, Portable Cities¬-Guangzhou, Lisbon, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Wellington, 2002¬2004
Installation: Six suitcases containing found objects, clothes, sound with CD player, light and maps. Dimensions variable; each suitcase measures: 820 x 720 x 300 mm/ and 820 x 1500 x 900 mm (when exhibited open). Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of Biennale of Sydney. Photography by Jenni Carter.
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Yin Xiuzhen, Portable City, New York 2003. Suitcase, used clothes, sound with CD player, light, map, magnifying glass, 82x72x30cm. 9 Open.
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