yichen Zhou
beijing, china
Photography and performance-based artist
“Sometime I take off the mask for a short moment. The air is getting warm. I can smell the spring in the air.”
Menu of Week 8, 2020.
It has been eight weeks since the whole country shut down. Things are slowly being back to normal. I go grocery shopping once a week, while wearing a mask and getting my temperature checked. Everywhere I go, I carry an entry pass to get into my neighborhood.
The three passes I carry are from my own neighborhood, my dad’s neighborhood and my grandma’s neighborhood. We live in three different areas of Beijing. My grandparents are both over 85 years old, so I visit them once in every two weeks to do grocery shopping for them.
To get the entry pass, I need:
1. Personal ID
2. Apartment Lease Document
3. Scan a QR code from phone service operator. It shows all the places I went in the past month. I have to prove that I didn’t leave Beijing in the past 30 days.
4. Register my face into my neighborhood’s facial recognition system.