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MoMA Presents First U.S. Installation of Yin Xiuzhen’s Large-Scale Sculpture Collective Subconscius

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhen, the first U.S. installation of the artist’s large-scale sculpture Collective Subconscious (2007), February 24 through March 24, 2010. Yin Xiuzhen’s (Chinese, b. 1963) site-specific installations and sculptures bridge the past and the present, the environmental and the personal. Collective Subconscious is a 38-foot-long minivan that has been bisected and lengthened via a tube covered in a patchwork of secondhand garments and set upon rows of tiny wheels. A limited number of Museum visitors at a time are welcome to climb inside the caterpillar-like sculpture, where low stools provide seating and the strains of the popular Chinese pop song “Beijing Beijing” (2007) by Wang Feng fill the air, creating a refuge within the white walls of the gallery and a place for conversation and discussion. Projects 92 is organized by Sarah Suzuki, The Sue an