ALL WILL COME IF WE WORK HARDER
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 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.