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Nova at Aichi Triennale 2022
Cao Fei mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, and documentary conventions, and makes occasional references to Surrealism, producing films and installations that are reflections on the rapid developmental changes that are occurring in Chinese society today. She presents her retro sci-fi movie NOVA (2019) in part of a sawtooth-roof mill building owned by the old woolen textile manufacturer in the Bishu district, Kunishima, which was founded in 1850 and remains a key member of the woolen textile industry today.