Tag: Cao Fei

  • Cao Fei: Urban Legend

    Writing about the medium promiscuous practice of Cao Fei in this special feature commissioned for Kaleidoscope in anticipation of her MoMA PS1 retrospective.  http://kaleidoscope.media/cao-fei-essay New orders are born, so is new, strange wisdom —China Tracy, RMB City Manifesto Legend has it that leading up to the International Center of Photography’s triennial in 2009, curators at…

  • Cao Fei on La Town for Artforum 500 words

    曹斐近日在纽约Lombard Freid画廊展出新作《La Town》，40余分钟的定格拍摄影片全部由微缩人物与场景组成。在这个与现实比例为1：87的世界里，艺术家试图描摹一座城市的过往与命运。它反复在虫洞中迁徙至其他时空，逃避着记忆的捕捉，后在当代博物馆展览柜中被封存、展出、遗忘。