Decided to turn my series, #iamnotavirus, into a more permanent piece by charring and burning portraits on bamboo weaves.
#Iamnotavirus started from France with the Twitter hashtag #Jenesuispasunvirus to push back against racism related to COVID-19. There have been reports of people punched in the face, spat on and turned away based on their Asian ethnicity. In my piece, portraits of seven Asians are charred onto bamboo weaves. These were victims, including a two-year-old Asian-American girl who was stabbed in Texas, a 23-year-old Singaporean student who was punched in the eye in London, and Malaysian-Singaporean students who were hit in Melbourne. All are mask-wearing – an object that is fundamentally viewed differently in the West versus Asia. The mask represents stigmatization, ostracism, otherness, racial “passing” and shame. Newspaper clippings are weaved in, featuring headlines of racial attacks and “Chinese Virus” proclamations. #Iamnotavirus pokes holes in the mishandling of the coronavirus by the leaders and media through the reality that racism is alive in 2020 and should be confronted.
Photography by Danielle Soong.
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