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Cao Fei: Photographic Journey
Chapter One: Game, Fresh, Storage Box
不知不觉，曹斐的影像实践已经伴随着我们跨越了近四分之一世纪，而生活的加速度，在技术的加持之下，丝毫没有缓冲的迹象。我们生处其中，有意无意地，我们已将这些艺术家在不同时刻捕捉到的人的境况视为当然，却从来没有停下来追问藉何这些影像得以成为我们生存的投射，缘何是影像／摄影？
在这些虚构的场景和人类的真实处境之间，曹斐摄影凝炼而成的情境成为一个穿越虚实空间的界面。“曹斐：摄影旅程”正是来自于这样真实的生命历程中——这是属于艺术家生命中的时间，属于艺术作品本身所拥有的时间，而不仅仅是社会现实的时间，技术的时间。今天，人人成为摄影者，更剧烈地揭示了影像与人类生活最为密切的关系，数码技术带来了摄影意义的调整，而曹斐的影像实践恰恰跨越了影像技术数码化转变发生的前与后，由此，我们可以悉心感受她面对着摄影编码与惯例的回应、颠覆和再造。
应和着人生的旅程，“曹斐：摄影旅程”将在镜花园展开历时一年的过程。从空间2开始，“曹斐：摄影旅程”将延伸至其他空间，在不同的章节中，展开和艺术家的摄影历程相伴的时间中的切片，展现流变中的人间戏剧、尘世的悲喜，探讨摄影如何穿行于这样易逝的情感与世界。
“曹斐：摄影旅程”的第一章“游戏，新鲜，收纳箱”，开始于这些年轻人在千禧年之初的肖像，曹斐和这些同代人一起演绎着她和她／他们的幻想、欲望和微不足道的小人物的骄傲。由此，“曹斐：摄影旅程”既检视千禧年以来的生活变化，也检视摄影媒介本身的变迁——这将是一个由回望通向未知的旅程。
镜花园邀请朋友们走入曹斐的摄影旅程，希望和大家一起，随着不同章节的打开，我们有可能慢慢洞悉到曹斐镜头下世界纷繁之下的苍凉，以及她对人性持续不断的追问：是什么塑造了我们今天的人性？是什么塑造了摄影的行为、形态，和对流逝的时间的抵抗？
“曹斐：摄影旅程”第一章，3月15日开始，在路上。
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?
维他命艺术空间
曹斐：摄影旅程
第一章：游戏，新鲜，收纳箱
展览时间
曹斐：摄影旅程
2025年3月-12月
第一章：游戏，新鲜，收纳箱
开始于2025年3月15日
地址
广州市番禺区化龙农业大观园内
日常开放时间
周三至周日，13点至17点 （周一，周二闭馆） 如遇节日或特殊情況将可能调整开放时间，届时敬请关注公众号和网站上的通知。
如您计划来访参观，请提前通过镜花园官方网站“预约来访”页面进行预约。
网址: mirroredgardens.art
微信: mirroredgardens
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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
Address
Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou
Daily Opening Hours
Wednesday to Sunday, 1 to 5pm (closed on Monday and Tuesday)
Hours may vary on holidays or in special circumstances. Please check our WeChat Public Account or website for the latest updates.
Please make an appointment to visit the exhibition via the official website of Mirrored Gardens.
Website: mirroredgardens.art
WeChat: mirroredgardens
Tel: +86 20-31043759
Contact: mail@mirroredgardens.art
Press: PR@vitamincreativespace.com