Pace is pleased to present a solo exhibition dedicated to Yin Xiuzhen, a key figure in Chinese installation and performance art since the 1990s.

On view from November 25 to January 5, 2023, this exhibition marks Yin’s first presentation in Hong Kong since her acclaimed institutional exhibition Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch opened at the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT) in 2020. Yin’s show with Pace in Hong Kong, which follows her 2021 solo exhibition at Pace’s New York gallery, will spotlight her ongoing explorations of materiality. Among the 40 sculptures and installations on view, which date from 2008 to 2022, will be Yin’s new series The Surging Waves Chronicles, which has never before been exhibited publicly.

Yin is known for her deeply resonant installations incorporating everyday objects and materials, from used clothes and fabrics to porcelain and cement to fruits and plants. These layered, lyrical works—which serve as repositories of cultural memory—capture the undercurrents of disorientation and unease in modern society. Yin’s upcoming exhibition with Pace will bring together several bodies of work, most of which are being shown in Hong Kong for the first time, that reflect her longstanding interest in the variable qualities of her chosen materials.

Transmutations of seemingly static materials into lively, vital entities are central to Yin’s practice. In recent years, she has adopted porcelain as the core material for her work—compared to other materials that evolve slowly over time, porcelain undergoes extraordinary and rapid changes during its firing. At high temperatures, the originally soft, unremarkable clay becomes crystalline, cooling and solidifying as a glossy, talismanic object. The physical and symbolic energy transformations that take place as part of this process are especially fascinating to the artist.

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