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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, © Zhang Peili
Zhang Peili 張培力
A Report on the Hepatitis A Infection in 1988 1988年甲肝情况的報告
1988
This sculpture consists of a brown glove with the palm facing up on the left, and a darker brown glove with the palm facing down on the right. A reddish brown viscous substance is visible on the glove on the right, and dark green stains on the glass outline the glove’s shape. A layer of thick lacquer, resembling yellowish liquid, covers the gloves. Displayed under sheets of glass, the gloves resemble medical specimens or contaminated items. The work is one of several installations and performances by Zhang Peili that incorporate latex gloves, and that follow from his realistic depictions of gloves in a series of oil paintings from 1986 and 1987 that emphasise sterility and distance. The physical gloves, made to appear soiled, reflect the fear of disease and infection during the 1988 outbreak of hepatitis A in Shanghai, which infected Zhang. The work is also a response to the deaths from hepatitis, based on his observations as a patient rather than the version of events presented in news reports.
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