Genesis and Mr. Liu's one week, video-installation 1998-99

Mr. Liu is a common Beijing resident and an editor of a newspaper. The artist video recorded his one-week daily life: he went to buy some computer units on Monday, he went to work on Tuesday and had a dinner with his friends and he went to play balls on Wednesday etc. The trivial details of his daily life is truly recorded and the recording of his everyday life is shown on the screen.

Texts of Genesis of the Bible is framed on the wall, which recorded the God's creative work within one week.

The recorded details show on the screens are inserted with some black and white images which show the unconsciously minor actions in one's everyday life: massage one's eyes, fasten the clasps and open the door with a key etc. Every screen shows the same image silently at the moment.

This works heightens the trivial details of everyday life to the equivalent level of Genesis created by the God and it is also the dialogue between the aesthetics of everyday life in Zen and the ideology of Christianism.