The production of reality induced by the media and new technologies accelerates the transformation of the world from a tangible entity to a variation of intangible narrative. Our existence, transformed by technology, is creating a cognitive dissonance that spreads far more quickly throughout humanity. Constantly constructed realities confront and entangle each other in a loop of subversion and reconstruction. In an accelerated world, everyone is in an intensified struggle of shift between associate and disassociate. We are spectators of the fiction of our own existence. The individuals, as part of the world, are at the heart of this process, yet often find themselves unwittingly marginalized.
Jingyu Cao focuses on the fictionality of reality, manifested both in space and time, in an era when the world's cartography is ceaselessly evolving. Adopting a dialectical perspective, she probes the interdependent causality of the Anthropocene era and examines our existence, conditioned by the entanglements between the organic aspects of media and technology. These entanglements, significant both geopolitically and biopolitically, are central to her artistic approach which merges virtual reality and reconstructed reality through photography, generative imagery, 3D animation, and sound and/or text.
Jingyu Cao focuses on the fictionality of reality, manifested both in space and time, in an era when the world's cartography is ceaselessly evolving. Adopting a dialectical perspective, she probes the interdependent causality of the Anthropocene era and examines our existence, conditioned by the entanglements between the organic aspects of media and technology. These entanglements, significant both geopolitically and biopolitically, are central to her artistic approach which merges virtual reality and reconstructed reality through photography, generative imagery, 3D animation, and sound and/or text.