The Labourer, 2017

Hong Kong 2019
The Labourer

Galerie Urs Meile

Video/Film
A pair of legs appears on screen. The feet touch a pile of flour. The scene is domestic, recalling the work of housewives and the promise of sustenance. Light yellow liquid flows down the legs into the flour. The feet continue to pat the flour, kneading it until balls of dough form. The image is pure and refined, beautiful even though the artist is making the dough with her own urine. The labor becomes absurd with this realization – a waste of time, energy, and resources. The beauty gives way to unease mixed with morbid curiosity. Title: 《勞動者》 Artist: 曹雨 一雙腿在螢幕中出現,然後在一堆雪白麵粉上站立。麵粉使得場景看起來像家庭主婦的工作。雙腳不斷地按壓和揉擠著麵粉。每隔一段時間,一點點淡黃色的液體就會從腿上流下來,幾乎不被注意。當腳繼續拍打麵粉時,它被攆搗成小球團。這一圖像看起來純淨,精緻,擁有一種視覺美感。當觀眾意識到藝術家正在使用自己的尿液製作麵團時,場景變得荒謬,行為變得無效。站立著小便的方式模糊了性別,這種視覺美感立即被一種混合著不安,懷疑和好奇的情緒所佔領。