Shuxia Chen

Jan 14, 2025 | hiphopcanada.com | Shuxia Chen |UNSW Sydney

TLDR: The retrospective My City is Yours exhibit by Cao Fei blends nostalgia, sci-fi, and urban transformation through films, VR, and immersive installations, exploring humanity in a tech-driven world. Internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Cao Fei’s first retrospective in Australia, My City is Yours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, sets out to disorient and overstimulate the senses. In the exhibition introduction, Cao describes “a show that’s boisterous like the mall or the market”.

Dec 12, 2024 | theconversation.com | Shuxia Chen |UNSW Sydney

Internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Cao Fei’s first retrospective in Australia, My City is Yours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, sets out to disorient and overstimulate the senses. In the exhibition introduction, Cao describes “a show that’s boisterous like the mall or the market”. It bombards you with documentaries and sci-fi films, virtual reality (VR) games and vintage arcade machines, neon lights contrasting industrial metal scaffolds, electronica jamming hip-hop music.