Li Xiaofei: About Assembly Line
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Assembly lines are repetitive, constant, mechanical, uncreative and lack emotions.
It's a production method that kills creativity and passion.
It's efficient, fast and maximizes production.
It doesn’t allow for differences and assimilates everything and everybody.
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The factories I shot are brimming with a surprising collective romanticism.
Assembly lines, large or small, uphold social systems and maintain a surface appearance of order.
Machines or people constantly repeat the exact same movements.
There is a constant rotation of various different machine parts.
This movement exhibits the beauty and power of sequence and order.
The "People", assimilated by these machines, are nonetheless working in a cheerful and enjoyable rhythm.
They perform intrinsically as if in formation.
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This order is constantly being cut up, restructured, transformed and rebuilt into an illusory reality.
Li Xiaofei
