Year of the Rat Masks was a project by British China-based multimedia artist Daniel Staincliffe inspired by the untimely spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus over the Spring Festival period.
The first in the series of face mask art works were carefully constructed from “hell money” (sacrificial paper money, usually burned in memory to ancestors as part of Spring Festival). The artist combined two of the 2020 Lunar New Year’s motifs - the face mask and hell money - to create a work that echoes the anxieties of a country that is supposed to be in celebration.
As the epidemic in China grew into a global pandemic, Staincliffe took the face mask as a symbol of the virus’ impact and created new work inspired by specific stages in time.
Year of the Rat Masks was a project by British China-based multimedia artist Daniel Staincliffe inspired by the untimely spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus over the Spring Festival period.
The first in the series of face mask art works were carefully constructed from “hell money” (sacrificial paper money, usually burned in memory to ancestors as part of Spring Festival). The artist combined two of the 2020 Lunar New Year’s motifs - the face mask and hell money - to create a work that echoes the anxieties of a country that is supposed to be in celebration.
As the epidemic in China grew into a global pandemic, Staincliffe took the face mask as a symbol of the virus’ impact and created new work inspired by specific stages in time.
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