Between these fictitious scenes and the human reality, the situations crystallized through Cao Fei’s photography become an interface that crosses the boundaries of the virtual and the real. The project Cao Fei: Photographic Journey comes from such a real life-journey—this is time belonging to the artist’s life, the time inherent to the artwork itself, and not just the time of social reality or technology.
Echoing the journey of life, Cao Fei: Photographic Journey will take place over the course of one year in Mirrored Gardens, it will begin in Space 2 and gradually extend into other spaces. Unfolding in different chapters, the exhibition will present segments of time that have accompanied the artist’s photographic journey, showcasing the ever-changing human drama, the joys and sorrows of the earthly realm, and exploring how photography traverses such transient emotions and worlds.
The first chapter of Cao Fei: Photographic Journey, “Game, Fresh, Storage Box,” begins with portraits of young people at the turn of the millennium. Cao Fei, along with her contemporaries, portrays their and her fantasies, desires, and the pride of insignificant little people. Thus, Cao Fei: Photographic Journey not only examines the changes in life since the turn of the millennium, but also reflects on the evolution of the photographic medium itself—this will be a journey that looks back toward the unknown.
Mirrored Gardens invites friends to enter into Cao Fei’s photographic journey. We hope that, as different chapters unfold, we might gradually gain insight into the desolation beneath the complexity of the world through Cao Fei’s lens, as well as her ongoing inquiry into human nature: What has shaped the humanity we possess today? What has shaped the act of photography, its forms, and its resistance to the passage of time?
Vitamin Creative Space
Cao Fei: Photographic Journey
Chapter One: Game, Fresh, Storage Box
Dates
Cao Fei: Photographic Journey
March 5, 2025 – December, 2025
Chapter One: Game, Fresh, Storage Box
Starting March 15, 2025
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