Since March, a 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist nicknamed Siyuan Zhuji has been filming his own nucleic acid tests with a small camera in his mouth.In some shots, a PPE-clad health worker can be seen through his teeth,"I want to show that this is our current life, we're living like this. It is very common for us to do nucleic acid tests, and we do it intensively," Siyuan Zhuji told Reuters from his studio in eastern Jiangsu province.
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" in Mandarin, which translates as"COVID test".