Germs is a 3-minute green-screen video that follows a glamorous female protagonist through series of advertising tropes. Moving from a perfume to a bathroom cleaner commercial, she converses with a persuasive masked woman and becomes increasingly paranoid about the omnipresence of microscopic germs. Rachel plays every character in the piece. "Germs," 2013, 3-minute digital video / Commission by Bold Yin for Channel 4 Random Acts.
Rachel Maclean (Born 1987, Edinburgh, lives and works in Glasgow). Maclean graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and has exhibited across the UK and internationally.