One Hand Washes the Other
2020
single channel colour HD video | 2’00” | camera sound
The artist performs the 2 minute hand washing code that instructed during the Coronavirus pandemic 2019-2020. Ash is recommended by the World Health Organisation as a soap substitute where there is no access to soap. Ash is also a symbol of mortality. Here the artist's hand washing routine becomes a desperate and futile act against the wind that threatens and frustrates the washing medium of ashes. The gallery of images a replication of the instructional hand-washing posters in washrooms and institutions.