"These clothes are not secondhand, says Yin Xiuzhen, the Beijing-born artist known for creating large-scale installations out of found garments and keepsakes. I prefer to call them used' or worn', she explains. Clothes that have been worn' carry a lot of information like a second skin, imprinted with social meaning. In some of Yin's works the clothes are her own, telling a personal story. In others, the clothes are collected, stained and stretched across towering steel frames resembling planes, trains or organic forms."
"This sentiment is somewhat shared by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, whose exhibition, Threads of Life, runs concurrently on the second floor of the gallery. Using thread as her primary material, the Berlin-based artist weaves found objects such as suitcases, keys and letters into monumental web-like installations. I want to create this feeling of shared experience and existence, she says. Memory exists inside each person, but it is also connected to objects in our daily life."
Yin Xiuzhen transforms worn clothing into large-scale installations that carry social meaning and personal memory, treating garments as a second skin imprinted with lived experience. Some works use the artist's own clothes to tell intimate stories; others use collected, stained garments stretched across steel frames that evoke planes, trains, or organic forms. Chiharu Shiota employs thread to weave found objects—suitcases, keys, letters—into monumental web-like structures that connect individual memory to everyday items. Both exhibitions occupy adjacent floors at the Hayward Gallery, foregrounding textiles and found objects as mediums for identity and shared experience.
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