Chinese artist records era of Covid-19, one test at a time

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SHANGHAI – For most of China's 1.4 billion people, regular Covid-19 tests have become a way of life. Siyuan Zhuji is trying to turn them into a work of art. Since March, the 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist from Jiangsu province has been filming his own nucleic acid tests with a small camera in his mouth. His video clips show teeth and...

Artist Siyuan Zhuji poses with a camera he places in his mouth to film nucleic acid tests for the coronavirus disease, at his studio in Jiangsu province, China, on Sept 30, 2022.SHANGHAI – For most of China's 1.4 billion people, regular Covid-19 tests have become a way of life. Siyuan Zhuji is trying to turn them into a work of art.

His video clips show teeth and tongue and an approaching cotton bud. In some shots, a PPE-clad health worker can be seen through his teeth, administering the test. He aims eventually to display the videos simultaneously on a big screen in a grid, a snapshot of pandemic life in China. He calls his work"This work can represent this era. This is what I want to express. It is to record everyone's current life," Zhuji said.

 

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