"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"i.Mirror by China Tracy (AKA Cao Fei)" (2007)
"i.Mirror by China Tracy (AKA Cao Fei)," 2007
Mixed media, dimensions variable
Installation at the Chinese Pavilion in Venice Biennale, Italy, 2007
© Cao Fei
Courtesy the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Mixed media, dimensions variable
Installation at the Chinese Pavilion in Venice Biennale, Italy, 2007
© Cao Fei
Courtesy the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
"By the time I was invited to participate in the China Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, I had already been thinking that the virtual world could somehow be brought into the commission."
-Cao Fei
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