Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China in 1978. Fei studied at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2001 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. Fei creates playful, creative, and innovative art. Inspired by old Chinese architecture, landscapes and art Fei mixes old with new when creating new work. Fei creates photographs, video installations, and various media works. Cao Fei has had her work shown in multiple solo exhibitions including HIP HOP, Lombard-Fried Project in New York, COSPlayers, Para Site Art Space in Hong Kong, and The San Yuan Li Project, The Court Yard Gallery in Beijing.
Fei uses a variety of different materials to create her work dependent on the project she is creating. Fantasy and playfulness has a large impact on Fei’s work and subject matter. After college, Fei began creating work about her critique of society and the grind of people in the workplace. In her later work, Milk Man Fei created a video piece that consisted of a more thorough understanding of society as a whole. I found this interesting because Cao Fei’s artwork changed as she grew and experienced more things. COSPLAYERS also known as role-playing are young people who are highly influenced by cartoon culture. In Fei’s piece COSPLAYERS she created a film with carton inspired teens in their everyday life displaying a role reversal situations. Over the years, Fei has mixed multiple topics and interests of hers to create videos and work that relates several of her interests together each time expanding her creativity.
I am attracted to Cao Fei’s work because of her creativity and how she expands her topics and projects each time she creates a new series. Fei’s work relates to what I am doing with my projects because of the playfulness that she brings to her artwork. I have been working with women and the characters that they play or used to once toy with.
Quotes
“It also has this Avatar like element with the workers role playing their fantasies, I often have the feeling that their truly valid is a kind of opportunity to remake themselves. For corporations to that artist creates works with the factory as the backdrop is an attempt to form a corporate culture.”
“What Artists do in reality to the art world is not all that important to the corporation. What is important is the project that is created”
Website: http://www.caofei.com/
Interview: http://fillip.ca/content/your-utopia-is-ours
Gallery: Para-site, 2006 Hong Kong
Cao Fei, COSPLAYERS, C-Print
Cao Fei, COSPLAYERS, C-Print
Deep Breathing
Cao Fei, Fresh, C-Print
Unattainable Love
Cao Fei, Fresh, C-Print
Not Going Home Today
Works Cited
Cao Fei. Biography. <http://www.caofei.com/2.html>.
PBS. Art 21. Fantasy. <http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/cao-fei/>.
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