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.

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