Zhongting Sun

As a socialist country that promotes atheism, the influence of religious beliefs in China is declining with the rapid development of its modernization and economy. As for Buddhism, the most influential religion in China, in addition to its own attributes of religious belief, its production process necessarily carries with it the commodity attributes of consumerism; in fact, its sacredness has always been inextricably linked to its commercialized and secularized attributes. 

In this project, I explored some of the factories that make Buddha statues. In my exploration of the Buddha statues' traceability, I found that many of them were abandoned in the open space outside the factories, and the ones that were being produced were casually placed on the ground or in the corners. Here, the Buddha seems to have lost its divinity and become a pure assembly line product. And those Buddhas that have been discarded and shelved for various commercial reasons have gradually faded in oblivion of a long time.