Cao Yu’s “Passing Through the Human World” at Galerie Urs Meile touched on different relations: between men and women; human and nature; material and supernatural; and perhaps most of all, between the two sides of herself, as subject and object.
The exhibition featured a number of photographed portraits that differ strikingly in approach. In (2020), Cao appears naked from the waist up, holding aloft a gigantic heart. Looking
