The Gaokao Factory

Thousands of students are sealed inside individual transparent capsules, each carrying books, notes, and unfinished assignments. As the capsules tumble inside a giant vending machine, every student continues studying, sleeping, or working without interruption.

The machine becomes a metaphor for uncertainty within a highly competitive system. While effort remains constant, outcomes appear increasingly shaped by forces beyond individual control. The work reflects the uneasy relationship between hard work, chance, and selection.

Inside a vast school gymnasium, countless students run alone within giant hamster wheels. Some sprint desperately, some struggle to keep pace, and others appear exhausted, yet every wheel continues turning.

The piece visualizes the experience of continuous competition and self-discipline. Although everyone is moving forward, each wheel operates at a different speed, suggesting unequal conditions hidden beneath the appearance of a shared race.

Students are vacuum-sealed alongside textbooks and study materials, moving slowly through a pristine automated packaging facility. Conveyor belts guide them toward a massive industrial mixing drum where thousands of packaged students accumulate and rotate together.

Borrowing the visual language of logistics and manufacturing, the video imagines education as a process of standardization, classification, and mass production. Individual identities remain visible, yet increasingly become part of a larger system designed to organize, evaluate, and process human potential.