Until It Stops
Title: Until It Stops
Year: 2025
Medium: metal tube, clay, bones, fishhooks, etc.
Dimensions: 35cm*30cm*40cm
Collection: collection of the artist
The work Until It Stops takes the lower jawbone as its core structure. Here, the jaw is not regarded as a fragment of the body or evidence of violence, but as a highly functional component: biting, bearing weight, and engaging in repetitive motion.
Raw meat is hung on an iron hook, which is connected to a set of continuous reciprocating piston devices. The pistons simulate the process of swallowing and vomiting at a steady and calm rhythm. This mechanical cycle points to the state after such a structure has been internalized: when explicit commands disappear, control does not end but is embedded in the body's own operation in a more covert way, never stopping.
This mechanical process serves as a precise metaphor for the subject-less power structure prevalent in contemporary society. This structure disciplines individuals into standardized units within it, termed "Residual." Residual possesses a dual, contradictory nature: it is both the essential interface that connects and transmits commands for the system, and the sacrificial part pre-designated to be consumed and worn down first to sustain the system's perpetual operation. The calm reciprocation of the installation thus becomes an eternal metabolism—continuously wearing down the Recital, while perpetually ready to replace it with a new copy.
Until It Stops exposes the automated logic of this self-compulsion: within an anonymous structure, we are both the indispensable interface for its functioning and the material destined to be eroded by its endless operation.
Raw meat is hung on an iron hook, which is connected to a set of continuous reciprocating piston devices. The pistons simulate the process of swallowing and vomiting at a steady and calm rhythm. This mechanical cycle points to the state after such a structure has been internalized: when explicit commands disappear, control does not end but is embedded in the body's own operation in a more covert way, never stopping.
This mechanical process serves as a precise metaphor for the subject-less power structure prevalent in contemporary society. This structure disciplines individuals into standardized units within it, termed "Residual." Residual possesses a dual, contradictory nature: it is both the essential interface that connects and transmits commands for the system, and the sacrificial part pre-designated to be consumed and worn down first to sustain the system's perpetual operation. The calm reciprocation of the installation thus becomes an eternal metabolism—continuously wearing down the Recital, while perpetually ready to replace it with a new copy.
Until It Stops exposes the automated logic of this self-compulsion: within an anonymous structure, we are both the indispensable interface for its functioning and the material destined to be eroded by its endless operation.