People's Architecture
	BIO     YIN XIUZHEN Yin Xiuzhen is one of the most active woman artists in today's China. She is an avant-garde installation artist, mirroring the environment around her. She began showing her work in the late eighties, around the time she graduated from the Beijing Capital Normal University. In recent years she has made a number of installations both in the galleries and outside. The artwork of Ms. Xiuzhen reflects the living environment. She considers artwork as a means of communication to convey aspects of individual experiences in life in relation to global transformations. (Since the mid 1990s Yin Xiuzhen has created artwork in response to the massive destruction and reconstruction in Beijing. Through various types of intervention, Yin Xiuzhen seeks to personalize objects and allude to the lives of people affected by sudden social, physical and cultural change. Memory, the past and the present, external appearances and internal responses are strong themes in her work. Yin Xiuzhen lives and works in Beijing, China