小时

司马源将一个普通的白色发面馒头放入蒸锅中加热，直至锅中水份完全消失。2小时之后，馒头逐渐被碳化成纯黑色，最终被“风干”成硬块。艺术家将其保存在冰箱里长达两年，并时时观察它的变化。在这一看似日常的过程里，馒头原本所具有的洁白、柔软、可食用性等可满足人类欲望的实用特质被一一瓦解,成为漆黑、硬冷、无法食用的“陌生之物”。这一时常被人忽视的轻微动作背后，隐藏着“时间改变事物的本质”这一奥秘，同时使人联想起死亡与欲望等庞大而沉重的生命主题。她也将这一过程实施在花生等其他物质上。

Hours

Sima Yuan put an ordinary white steamed bun in a steamer and heated it until the water inside completely disappeared. After 2 hours, the bun was gradually carbonized into pure black and finally “air-dried” into hard lumps. The artist kept it in the refrigerator for up to two years and watched it from time to time. In this process, the original qualities of a steamed bun such as whiteness, softness, and edibility that satisfy human desires, were disintegrated one by one, becoming dark, cold, and inedible “strange thing”. Behind this slight movement hides the mystery of “time changes the nature of things”, and at the same time reminds people of the huge and heavy life themes such as death and desire. She also implements this process on other things like peanuts.

“2小时”，馒头, 8x6cm, 2020
“Two Hours”, steamed bun, 8x6cm, 2020

“1小时”，花生, 尺寸可变 , 2022
“One Hour”, peanuts, dimensions variable, 2022

(展览现场)
(Exhibition View)