A NEW NORMAL?

2020 will always be remembered as the Covid-19 global pandemic year. In a series of photographs, sculptures and installations, we explore the human responses to the changes we experienced.

With “A NEW NORMAL?”, we draw inspiration from one of the most obvious tools to protect oneself; – gloves. While protecting, gloves separate humans at the same time. Our art works in different settings highlight these tools of separation and protection.

In a time when touch is anxious and ‘forbidden’. While it seals and protects us, the gloves’ promise puts a barrier between us and the world, between our senses and our loved ones. Single-use gloves have become essential in our everyday lives and the unending demand ensues as long as the pandemic continues, just as the world became concerned with reducing carbon emissions and pollution not too long before. As the aviation industry struggles with countries’ economy falling into recession, the unprecedented demand for gloves during this pandemic brings windfall fortune to glove manufacturing companies and tech companies that propels a ‘touchless’ society.

As we brace ourselves through this pandemic, that would be the ‘new normal’ when it subsides?

SERIES 1 – GLOVED TOGETHER