Cao Fei is both a photographer and a filmmaker. She works with themes in the gaming culture. What drew me to her work is how her drawing is like one of my favorite video games, Katamari. Cao does work for video game developers and creates her own worlds. She first gained notice for a series of photos and video depicting tends dressed as Japanese manga characters.
“A lot of my friends have an idol, and when they start out, their films look a lot like their idols’. It isn’t until later that they find their own place,” says Cao, on the phone from Istanbul, where she’s participating in that city’s 10th International Biennial. “My thinking is, why not find your place from the get-go and do what you want to do?” (Cao Fei). Fei is a very young artist and from the first discovering what she could do, knew what she wanted to do. A lot of Fei’s work is fantasy based, dwelling on the realms of anime and manga, but showing her own self. Fei applies strategies of sampling, role play, and documentary filmmaking to capture individual’s longings and the ways in which they imagine themselves. She uses all these things to show the content in her work. She shows her characters as being anything and everything, such as hip-hop dancers to costumed characters.
Cao Fei reveals the discrepancy between reality and dream in her work. This helps show the discontent and disillusionment of China’s younger generation, which is also a major theme in her work. Though her work is different from most artists and filmmakers, it speaks to many people in our pop culture as being a bridge between cultures.
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