Cao Fei: Photographic Journey (Season Two)
曹斐：摄影旅程（第二季）
今天，人人都是摄影者。 这一日常现象既揭示了影像与生活的紧密联系，也遮蔽了摄影自身的复杂与困境。正如格雷汉姆·克拉克所言：摄影始终留下一个难以回答的问题——什么才是一张照片？
曹斐曾自述，她的影像并非“自然”的再现，而是由虚构场景、虚拟情绪与感受拼贴而成的现实假设——“但必须承认，所有的假设全部来自我真实的记忆。” 跨越近四分之一世纪的影像实践，伴随着生活与技术的加速而展开，曹斐的作品早已潜移默化地与我们的存在相互映照，迫使我们追问：为何是影像？
2025年10月8日开启的“曹斐：摄影旅程（第二季）”，将邀请我们继续思索千禧以来的生活变迁，也检视摄影媒介本身的变化。
旅程之“角色，后花园，新星”
展览地点：镜花园，空间2
曹斐，《暮光》，来自《后花园》系列，2011，纸本艺术微喷，90 × 120 cm
犹如时间的回溯和快进，在这个空间，我们遭遇一群年轻人在千禧年之初的肖像，生活和游戏的边界在“角色”和“非角色”的扮演中模糊着，并进入到“后花园”和人工智能的场景。在虚拟与现实，虚构与现实之间，“新星”出现在过去和未来交汇的时空隧道，伴随着在尘世中成长的悲喜——未来在不知不觉中已经来临。
旅程之“在超人类的边缘瞭望”
展览地点：MG项目@回空间
曹斐，《套娃宇宙 16》，来自《套娃宇宙》系列，2022，纸本艺术微喷，105 × 157 cm
更远的旅程是在人类的边界吗？在丛林中，我们来到了某种内与外空间的边界。曹斐不断建构出具有推演性的虚拟场景，既展现了加速数字生活中的希望，也映射出其中的不确定性。
艺术家简介
曹斐1978 年生于广州，2001年毕业于广州美术学院，现在北京工作和生活。曹斐的创作跨越了活动影像、摄影、剧场、写作和第二人生电影等多种媒介，以丰富的媒介手段来表达对当代生存的感受。
曹斐作品©艺术家
图片由艺术家和维他命艺术空间惠允
维他命艺术空间
曹斐：摄影旅程（第二季）
开放时间：2025年10月8日
旅程之“角色，后花园，新星”
展览地点：镜花园，空间2
旅程之“在超人类的边缘瞭望”
展览地点：MG项目@回空间
地址
广州市番禺区化龙农业大观园内
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Cao Fei: Photographic Journey (Season Two)
Today, everyone is a photographer. This everyday phenomenon reveals the close entanglement of images with life, while also obscuring the inherent complexity and difficulty of photography. As Graham Clarke once observed, photography always leaves us with a lingering, unanswerable question: what is a photograph?
Cao Fei has remarked that her images are not “natural” reproductions of reality, but collages of fictional scenes, virtual emotions, and imagined experiences—“yet it must be admitted, all these hypotheses come from my true memories.” Spanning nearly a quarter of a century, Cao Fei’s photographic practice has unfolded alongside the acceleration of life and technology. Her works have subtly mirrored our own conditions of existence, urging us to ask: why images, why photography?
Starting from October 8th this autumn, Cao Fei: Photographic Journey will enter its “second season.” It examines both the transformations of everyday life since the turn of the millennium and the evolving condition of the photographic medium itself.
Journey through “Cosplayers, Post Garden, Nova”
Location: Mirrored Gardens, Space 2
Cao Fei, Twilight, from Post Garden series, 2011, inkjet print on paper, 90 × 120 cm
Like a fast-forward and rewind through time, in this space we encounter portraits of young people at the dawn of the new millennium, where the boundaries between life and play blur in the shifting roles of “cosplayer” and “un-cosplayer.” These images lead us into the worlds of Post Garden and artificial intelligence. Between the virtual and the real, the fictional and the actual, “nova” emerges in a tunnel where past and future converge, accompanied by the joys and sorrows of growing up in this earthly realm—until, almost imperceptibly, the future has already arrived.
Journey through “Looking Out from the Edge of the Transhuman”
Location: MG Projects@ Re-space
Cao Fei, MatryoshkaVerse 16, from MatryoshkaVerse series, 2022, inkjet print on paper, 105 × 157 cm.
Does the farther journey lie at the borders of the human? At Re-space, we encounter a single photograph. Within the jungle of plants, we arrive at a boundary between inner and outer spaces. Cao Fei continually constructs speculative virtual scenes that reveal both the hopes of accelerated digital life and the uncertainties it entails.
About the Artist
Born in 1978 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Cao Fei graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art in 2001. She lives and works in Beijing. Cao Fei works across moving image, photography, theater, writing, and Second Life films, using diverse media to reflect on contemporary life.
All art works by Cao Fei © the Artist
Courtesy of the artist and Vitamin Creative Space.
Vitamin Creative Space
Cao Fei: Photographic Journey (Season Two)
Opening Date: October 8, 2025
Journey through “Cosplayers, Post Garden, Nova”
Location: Mirrored Gardens, Space 2
Journey through “Looking Out from the Edge of the Transhuman”
Location: MG Projects@ Re-space
Address
Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou
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