ACTION ARCHIVE / 02 / PRESSURE

《千锤百炼》Forged Through Hardship

Year
2024
Category
Performance video
Duration
3'19"
Action
Repeated striking / inverted nail / wooden hammer

一枚倒置的钉子与反复挥下的木锤,让无形的压力获得了声音、重量与破碎的形状。

An inverted nail and a repeated wooden strike give invisible pressure its sound, weight, and eventual fracture.

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在《千锤百炼》中,艺术家以不断敲击一枚倒置钉子的动作,隐喻现代社会中个体在无形压力下的自我消耗与身份解构。每一次木锤的挥动,不仅侵蚀着工具本身,也象征着个体在追寻社会认同与价值过程中逐步瓦解的精神状态。

随着锤子最终破碎,行为宣告结束,揭示了在持续的社会驱动与文化神话建构中,个体力量的耗尽与自我意识的崩塌。

In Forged Through Hardship, the artist repeatedly strikes an inverted nail fixed to the ground with a wooden hammer. This action reflects self-consumption and identity deconstruction under invisible social pressure.

As the hammer finally breaks, the performance ends, revealing the exhaustion of individual strength and the collapse of self-awareness amid social drives and cultural mythmaking.