FANG-YI KUANGCURRENT

GROUP EXHIBITION  
Resonant Differences
SHANGHAI
ART FLOW TAI ART CENTER
07.29-08.31 2025

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        ALL WILL COME IF WE WORK HARDER
        2025
        3’26
        video     



     This slow-motion video performance enacts a critical meditation on labor, mortality, and social hierarchy. The artist performs Chinese Sign Language (CSL) interpreting Genesis 3:19 – "By the sweat of your brow you 
      will eat your food until you return to the ground... for dust you are and to dust you will return." while coated in flour.


      Each deliberate sign language gesture becomes an act of visible exertion, releasing clouds of flour into the air. Captured in haunting slow motion, the flour transforms from a symbol of sustenance into airborne dust, 
      visualizing the biblical cycle of toil and decay. The performance unfolds against The Mavlinks' track "By the sweat of your brow," creating a layered dialogue between sacred text, contemporary sound, and bodily poetry.

      The work directly confronts the modern cult of productivity and inequitable social structures. The ironic title <All will come if we work harder> clashes with the scripture’s fatalism, critiquing societal myths linking relentless 
      labor to salvation or status. The ephemeral flour/dust underscores the fragility of the body and the ultimate futility of labor under systems of exploitation. This is not a celebration of work, but an elegy for the human cost 
      of grinding productivity cultures and unexamined hierarchies.