Always knew her work but only saw it once in a HK auction 2 years ago. Liked what I saw in Elements (strange that we had to see art works in shopping malls - that's HK!). "Portable City" is among her most famous series. It uses dirty clothes and discarded materials the artist finds in the cities she's visiting. It's about memories, globalisation, urbanisation and converging cultures.
Yin said, "In China, houses are changing to be more like American mansions. They want big tall buildings rather than the traditional Chinese house. It is very sad. Because of globalisation, every city is beginning to look the same. Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore are like one identical city now." According to Yin, "the suitcase is the life support container of modern living … the holder of the continuous construction of a human entity."
If there's anyone that knows living out of a suitcase, that'd be me!!!
PS - Never studied how her work is the same/different as her husband's. But judging from Song Dong's recent MOMA exhibition, clearly they shared the theme of memories, and the common practice of how they both "augment discarded items with a sense of history and experience; to turn them into sculptural documents of memory"
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