Kyrie
Should new technological achievements and modes of production first serve their own needs, or should they address planetary problems?
What kind of environmental justice should we pursue? If injustice is an inevitable result of class differentiation between wealth and poverty, is environmental justice merely an empty formal gesture of pity?
The work uses conventional chemical-industrial materials to create a simulated model of a pair of praying hands. The form, texture, and details of the hands are derived from workers engaged in highly polluting forms of production, and pollutants from traditional chemical industries are incorporated into the material of the hand model.
The upper container is made as a refined glass vessel resembling those often used in beauty products, with a carefully designed shape and texture. Sodium surfactin from the fermentation tank is injected into the central glass container and slowly drips onto the model of the hands.
As a lipopeptide surfactant, surfactin can adsorb pollutants. However, it can only adsorb pollutants located on the surface of the hand model, not those embedded within it. This process of purification therefore becomes a difficult and ultimately futile labor.
垂怜颂
新的科技成果和生产方式应该首先满足自身需要还是解决地球问题？
我们应该追求怎样的环境正义？如果非正义是贫富阶级分化的必然结果，环境正义是否只是一场形式主义的垂怜？
作品采用传统化工原料做成一双祷告的手的仿真模型，手的形态、质感和细节来源于从事高污染生产的工人，手模型的原料中加入传统化工业的污染物。
上方的容器被制作成在美妆产品中经常出现的、具有精美造型和质感的玻璃容器，发酵罐中的枯草菌脂肽钠注入中部的玻璃容器中并缓缓滴落至手的模型上。
脂肽可以作为表面活性剂进行对污染物的吸附，因此仅仅能吸附处于手模型表面的污染物，无法吸附手模型当中的污染物，因此这个净化的过程是一场艰难的无用功。
