‘Xiuzhen practice is rooted in a belief that objects carry memory, that the fabrics that touch our bodies and shelter our lives absorb something essential about who we are and where we have been. In an era of accelerated urbanisation and displacement, particularly in her native China, Yin has developed a visual language that honours what is lost even as it conjures far-reaching societal change.’ Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery
How do we preserve memory in the face of its continual erasure? Can art itself become a vessel for collective recollection? Heart to Heart is an exploration of an artist who has been one of the leading luminaries of Chinese contemporary art for the past 30 years on the occasion of her exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London.
