CHAT Limited Edition Artist Book Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch

**CHAT Limited Edition Artist Book Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch** 200×250 mm 220 pages in total； 200 images documenting the artist’s creative process Printed with English and Chinese descriptions Designer: Du Yun Publisher: CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) Celebrating CHAT’s Winter Programme 2020 exhibition Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch ─Yin Xiuzhen’s first large-scale exhibition in a museum setting in Hong Kong, we have launched 366 unique limited editions of the artist book to commemorate the special year of 2020. This book is the only artist monograph documenting Yin’s creative processes in Chinese in circulation. Each limited edition consists of a main volume and an autographed certificate. The book is a meticulous documentation of Yin’s best-known artworks since the 1990s, and her process of creating the new video installations, titled Rebel and Sky Patch, which are now exhibited at CHAT. Each edition is unique, and altogether the 366 canvas covers of the artist book constitute a picture of the installation Sky Patch・In Transit created specifically for The Hall of The Mills. ------------------------------------------------------------ **CHAT Publications** CHAT Publications document each season's major exhibitions and programmes of CHAT, exploring the role of textiles in contemporary art, in various industries and in our everyday lives, with insights and writings from our guest artists and industry experts. **About Arthur/Artist** A leading figure in Chinese contemporary art, Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) explores themes of the past and present, memory, globalisation and homogenisation. 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 comprised of second-hand 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 urbanisation and the growing global economy. Yin Xiuzhen has participated in many international and domestic group and solo exhibitions. Solo exhibitions include Nowhere to Land, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China(2013), Yin Xiuzhen, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (2012), Second Skin, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China (2010), Project 92, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2010), where her large scale installation Collective Subconscious – first debuted in her solo exhibition hosted by Beijing Commune (2007) – was displayed. She has participated in various significant exhibitions around the world including the 58th Venice Biennale, Italy (2019), DARK MOFO, Australia (2014), the 5th Moscow Contemporary Art Biennale, Moscow, Russia(2013), DUCHAMP and/or/in China, UCCA, Beijing, China (2013), the First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine (2012), OUR MAGIC HOUR: Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan (2011), the 7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (2008), the 52th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2007), the 14th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia (2004), the 26th Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil (2004) and Inside Out: New Chinese Art which was organized by the Asia Society Galleries, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (1998). The artist has received a range of prestigious awards including the China Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) and the UNESCO/ASCHBERG award in 2000. Her work has also been acknowledged in The New York Times in 2006 and Art in America in 2003.