亨氏番茄汤（屏幕1）Heinz Tomato Soup (Screen1)
双屏录像，彩色，有声
2025
5’00’’
Dual-channel video, color, sound
2025
5’00’’
亨氏番茄汤（屏幕2）Heinz Tomato Soup (Screen2)
双屏录像，彩色，有声
2025
5’00’’
Dual-channel video, color, sound
2025
5’00’’
2022年10月14日，两位环保组织的成员走进英国国家美术馆，将亨氏番茄汤泼向梵高名作《向日葵》外的保护玻璃，他并当众质问：“艺术更重要，还是生命更重要？” 此后，国家美术馆不再允许观众携带除瓶装水、母婴用品及处方药之外的所有液体入馆，甚至会严格地翻包检查。
2025年，我所在的艺术学校和国家美术馆合作了一个项目，鼓励年轻艺术家以不同方式介入美术馆空间，我提出的方案是在美术馆入口免费提供亨氏番茄汤，盛装于印有梵高《向日葵》的纸杯中。但美术馆以附近广场环境复杂、担忧流浪人员聚集可能造成秩序问题为由，拒绝了这一提议。之后，我实施了一个替代方案：以亨氏番茄汤罐头为道具，用保龄球的方式击倒由印有《向日葵》的纸杯搭建成的塔状装置。
但在完成这被批准的室内行为之后，我仍然决定实践自己最初的设想。我带着那些纸杯和番茄汤去了美术馆外的广场上，把免费的汤发给了进入美术馆的观众。这一未经授权的行动迅速引起美术馆和艺术学院的强烈不满，学校随后召集我进行了一次严肃的约谈，这些对话过程被我用录音笔完整记录下来，成为影像的背景音。
作品以双屏影像形式呈现。一屏展示的是国家美术馆内部被批准的、安全的“替代方案”；另一屏则记录了美术馆外我自发的、未经许可的行动。
On October 14, 2022, two young members of the environmental group Just Stop Oil entered London's National Gallery and threw Heinz tomato soup onto the protective glass covering Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece, Sunflowers, publicly questioning, "What is worth more, art or life?" Following this incident, the National Gallery implemented stringent security measures, strictly prohibiting visitors from bringing any liquids into the museum, with the exception of bottled water, baby products, and prescription medications. All visitors thereafter have been required to undergo thorough bag inspections.
In 2025, as part of a collaborative project called "Open Frame," organized by my art school, Central Saint Martins, in partnership with the National Gallery, young artists were encouraged to engage with the museum space in innovative ways. My original proposal was to set up a temporary stand at the museum entrance, offering visitors free Heinz tomato soup served in paper cups printed with van Gogh’s Sunflowers. However, the National Gallery rejected this proposal, citing concerns about the complexity of the surrounding area and potential disorder due to the presence of homeless individuals in Trafalgar Square. Instead, I carried out an approved alternative within the museum (Room 43), using cans of Heinz tomato soup as bowling balls to knock down towers constructed from paper cups printed with the image of van Gogh's Sunflowers.
After completing this approved indoor action, I nevertheless decided to pursue my initial concept independently. Taking the paper cups and Heinz tomato soup, I went to Trafalgar Square outside the museum entrance and freely distributed the soup to visitors entering the gallery. This unauthorized intervention quickly provoked strong objections from both the National Gallery and Central Saint Martins. The school subsequently arranged a formal disciplinary meeting with me to address this incident. The entirety of these discussions was secretly recorded by me, and these recordings now serve as audio documentation for the dual-channel video installation.
In this installation, one screen displays the approved, institutionally sanctioned "safe" performance inside the gallery, while the other shows the unauthorized and spontaneous public intervention outside.
