Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Yingchao Chen

Free purified air and water

This work is an installation in a small room, where the air will be purified by an ozonator and the audience will be offered purified water upon arrival. Posters are installed on the walls and an ozonator is placed on a glass table in the middle of the room. The images are from the factory that produces ozonators and the office that sells them. These photos are representations of real space, highlighting how productsgo through factories and locations to reach customers. Ironically, as an artist, my education is supported by the profits from my family’s factory. While working on this piece, reflecting on my personal situation pushed me to question my family’s contribution to the inequality of social class. It is a journal of self-redemption.