Books No.5, Books No.6, Books No.11, Books No.12, Books No.18, Books No.19

Artist Xiu Zhen Yin is also extremely sensitive to her surroundings and has long focused on the relationship between personal experience, memory and the era in which she lives. She is particularly adept at taking objects that are perfectly ordinary in their normal environment, private items that still have personal meaning or finished objects that represent the current era, and using them as creative materials while simultaneously imbuing them with her own distinctive viewpoint on various issues. Among the objects employed, she often uses second-hand clothes as a material that showcases memories of individuals.

In the series titled Books, second-hand clothes, which in a way represent their original owners' identities and personal experiences, have been transformed into books kept on the shelf for the audience to read. The colorful book spines also stress on their individuality. While clothes are often viewed as the "second skin" to us, in this work they have been transformed into books that carry erudition. In between everyday experiences and rational knowledge, the work offers the audience a chance to "read", both visually and tactiley, the multiple possibilities in different people's life.