"In the paintings where it's there—the tenderness—I work for it. I'm not afraid of it. If I could put my bleeding heart in there, I would."
"PRD Anti-Heroes" (2006)
"PRD Anti-Heroes," 2006
Video stills
Multi-media Opera, single-channel color video with sound, 2 hours 22 minutes
© Cao Fei
Courtesy the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Video stills
Multi-media Opera, single-channel color video with sound, 2 hours 22 minutes
© Cao Fei
Courtesy the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
"I started thinking about the artistic mainstream in China, and its mainstream heroes. But I deliberately blurred the two categories of heroes. PRD Anti-Heroes is full of ordinary individuals and also some real heroes from the Pearl River Delta region."
-Cao Fei
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