This 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist from Jiangsu province in China has been filming his own COVID tests with a small camera in his mouth turning 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 tongue and an approaching cotton bud.
In some shots, a PPE-clad health worker can be seen through his teeth, administering the test."This is how our life is now, this period of time involves doing regular nucleic testing," Zhuji told Reuters in an interview in his studio.Zhuji said the idea for the videos came to him when he began considering the vulnerability of the mouth, as an entry point for the virus and also for the repeated testing to find it.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 September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Casey HallHe has recorded about 40 tests and says he will continue taking video with his thumb-sized camera as long as regular testing is required. 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 "Hesuan Jiance", which translates as "COVID test". "This work can represent this era. This is what I want to express. It is to record everyone's current life," Zhuji said. The novel coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 and for nearly two years China was relatively virus free. But the Omicron variant brought persistent outbreaks across the country, which authorities have been battling with a barrage of testing. In many places, a negative COVID test is required to use public transport, and enter schools, places of work, shops, banks, parks and anywhere else people gather."I will continue shooting these videos until the end of the pandemic," he said. "If I die before the end, then I will keep shooting until I die."Reporting by Casey Hall; Editing by Robert Birsel
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