Cao Fei’s ‘Whose Utopia’ juxtaposes shots of machinery in a lightbulb factory with the personal dreams of its workers.
Cao Fei produced ‘Whose Utopia’ during her residency at a factory in Foshan in the Pearl River Delta region. She later invited factory workers to break away from routine and perform their secret aspirations alongside production lines, questioning the idea of utopia in an age of economic reform and globalisation.
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‘The fact that this is a light bulb factory is meaningful. It sheds light on our materialistic world yet without simultaneously lighting up its inside or lighting up the workers’ lives.’
- Cao Fei
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