∞ Container

TANG Han
7 min. 50 sec.
Edition of 5
Single-channel-video, color, sound, loop
2021

This work repeats the footage of a process that puts something resembling minerals into a container. The object is carefully handled in the process and protected with a wooden container for transport. On one hand, it can be associated with the formation of knowledge, which usually stems from the desire for touch, filled with curiosity, as such desire often comes with the wish to protect. Nevertheless, as time goes by, the relationship with nature becomes an object of knowledge, as the ideology that dominates humanity turns to treat nature as a resource that can be sorted for use. On the other hand, both the background in the video and the collected objects are constantly shifting, illustrating that such exploitation takes place in different time, locations, and historical contexts time and again.