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Contemporary artist Yin Xiuzhen urges viewers to “break through their shackles” with her solo show in Shanghai. “Sky Patch,” a new installation by artist Yin Xiuzhen, comprises a patchwork of torn and tattered clothes belonging to about 1,000 people, and gives the impression of a stained-glass ceiling that’s being pierced by a 15-meter-tall pin. The piece was inspired by Nüwa, a goddess in Chinese mythology who is credited with creating humanity and repairing the pillars of heaven with five colored stones. The installation is part of the 61-year-old artist’s latest solo exhibition, Piercing the Sky, which opened this month at the Power Station of Art, a contemporary art museum in central Shanghai. “I think people should break through their shackles,” Yin says. “In a sense, the clothes in ‘Sky Patch’ are patching up the sky, but they also act as a kind of shackle, and we need to pierce through them.” Born in Beijing, Yin began making art after graduating from Ca
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