FIELD MEETING
October 27th, 2014 New York City

Beijing-based artist Cao Fei screened excerpts of her latest works Haze and Fog (2013) and LA Town (2014). In her conversation with FIELD MEETING Associate Curator Xin Wang, Cao Fei discussed her fascination with zombie films, toys, technology, and other cinematic sources as art making strategies and contexts to consider crises in the world, and her immediate surroundings: pollution, apathy, and other apocalyptic disasters.

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Bio – Cao Fei (Beijing)
Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou) is one of the most significant and innovative young artists to have emerged on the international scene from China. Her multi-media projects explore the lost dreams of the young Chinese generation and their strategies for overcoming and escaping reality. She will premiere new work in her September exhibition La Town (2014) at Lombard Freid Gallery, NY. Cao Fei’s recent movie Haze and Fog (2013) screened at the Tate Modern, the art Institute of Chicago, collected by Pompidou Center. Her previous online project RMB CITY (2008-2011) has been exhibited in Deutsche Guggenheim (2010), Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2009), Serpentine Gallery, London (2008), Yokohama Triennale (2008). I. Mirror, 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), Chinese Pavilion; RMB CITY- A Second Life City Planning has been exhibited in Istanbul Biennale (2007); Whose Utopia, TATE Liverpool (2007), Cao Fei also participated a number of international biennales, 17th & 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006/2010), Moscow Biennale (2005), Shanghai Biennale (2004), 50th Venice Biennale (2003). She also exhibited video works in Guggenheim Museum (New York), the International Center of Photography (New York), MoMA (New York), P.S.1 (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (Paris), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo). Cao Fei was a nominee for the Future Generation Art Prize 2010 and was the finalist of Hugo Boss Prize 2010, and won The 2006 Best Young Artist Award by CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award).

(Source: https://www.caofei.com/about.aspx)

Cao Fei’s participation in FIELD MEETING was partially supported Lombard Freid Gallery

Cao Fei, LA Town. Video still courtesy of the artist and Lombard Freid Gallery