A Project of our time, of our people, and of our nature. 

Confession Of Virus Isolation Days19 (COVID-19) is an online performance art project, inspired by the quarantine situation all over the world. A massive live-streaming discourse among guests and artist Loretta Lau accomplished in 19 days of isolation from 25th March to 12th April. 166 international artists, musicians, actors and individuals were invited to participate a confession session, to share their unique emotion and story in this hard isolation time. The artist was speaking behind the textile, as if the guests were confessing to the priest in the confession box, which gave less tension and disturb to the conversation.

As an initiator, Loretta Lau was interviewing the guests about influences and experiences since the quarantine. While participants were expressing their perspectives or showing their performances, she depicted their portraits with blue brushes according to the vibes on a 13 meters long canvas. Blue is a typical color of cold and medicine, regarding the quarantine life and health care. It is also associated with credibility, trust, knowledge, power, professionalism, cleanliness,
calm and focus. In the meantime, we need those strengths to heal the wounds of the society. 

A Testimony of people all over the world; an archive to record this historical moment; a campaign to share our ideas and inspire the others. Despite the 13 meters height canvas, the documentary will be a crucial part of this project. For the artist, it was an unforgettable experience to interview and paint 10 hours a day, continuously for 19 days. It is vitally important to summarize 166 videos into one comprehensive documentary, to tell the collective story in a lucid way.
COVID19 changed the shape of the world and it became the biggest history event since WWII, affecting people across the globe. With this documentary we want to capture daily lives of people from different nations, so the future generation can experience this point in history. 

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