The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province. It came under Chinese rule in 1949. With few exceptions, artists and foreign researchers have been denied meaningful access to the rural areas in Xinjiang. Ross’s close working relationships with a Uyghur anthropologist and a French historian focusing on Central Asian Islam have guided her more than eight-year exploration in the region. The extensive body of work which Living Shrines of Uyghur China – commencing on February 8th, 2013 at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York – draws upon is rare in that it captures a time and place that is rapidly modernizing and transforming.

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