A Better Tomorrow – Working Hard’s Solo Exhibition

A Better Tomorrow continues Working Hard’s years-long exchanges and interactions with a group of Indonesian fisherman friends in southern Taiwan. As a phased presentation within this long-term project, the exhibition reconstructs living scenes that once existed briefly but were forcibly erased, through spatial re-creation and multichannel sound installations.

Under the realities of urban development and border governance, coastal shorelines become foreign lands and temporary dwellings for migrant workers—transitional spaces suspended between work and life, belonging and displacement. Through sound collection and spatial installation, Working Hard weaves together harbor labor, prayers, singing, and everyday environmental sounds into an “unperformed theater,” allowing these lived scenes to be perceived once again.

A Better Tomorrow does not point toward a definitive blueprint for the future, but instead poses a question: when the past is forcibly made to disappear, can oppressed histories and communities still be accommodated within our imagination of the future? Within this field composed of light, material, and sound, viewers from different backgrounds are able to encounter one another and reconsider the possibilities of survival, migration, and coexistence.