洁癖者 The Immaculate One

Creator(s)

Jin-Song WANG 王劲松

Preview

Date

5-1995

Format

Photograph

Exhibition Event Title

执白落黑——2018王劲松个展

Date of Exhibition Event

2015

Location of Exhibition Event

Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China

Materials

Action art consists of Fabric

Description

In this action art, artist Wang is dressed in a cuff printed with a red-cross, a conventional symbolism for hospital or health care settings, offering the work an "immaculate" or pollution-free air. While wandering around, the artist masks off his nose and mouth with a clean white fabric, as if wishing to filter the air that he breaths in. Wang's behaviors in this work echos the work's title, that he is playing the role of an "immaculate one", demanding extreme cleanliness of his surroundings. This action art might be Wang's exploration of human body, and how it can cast an epitome to the society at large. To the artist, the body is a free agent issuing emotions and actions; but at the same time, human body is also a receiver of its own commands. The relationship of human mind and its body is thus self-reciprocal. In the instance of being an "immaculate one", mind renders the pursuit to cleanliness on body while the very body started the awareness to cleanliness at the first place. The artist might also want to parallel the relationship to social studies, to see how this intricate, self-responding model of body can be applied to social realities. (Huang, 王劲松（Wang Jinsong), 2010, artda, available on https://www.artda.cn/yishujiakuguonei-c-3280.html). (Jerry Wu'23).