In Duotopia, digital architecture gathers around Oz, a hybrid avatar whose tentacles blur the distinction between organism and machine. At the Kunstmuseum Basel, these images meet a physical play space: purple light, inflatable forms and a ball pit give bodily scale to a world designed for the screen. The move from virtual space to installation poses a concrete question: how can we inhabit an environment that also changes our idea of the body?
Location. Cao Fei. Testimonies to the Near Future, The Playground section, Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Basel, Switzerland, 30 May–11 October 2026. Duotopia Vol. 1 & 2 dates from 2022 and 2024; Oz, from 2022.
Artist. Born in Guangzhou in 1978 and based in Beijing, Cao Fei works with video, digital media, installation, photography and sculpture. Her fictional worlds examine how technological and social transformation shapes everyday lives.
Documentation. This museum video directly shows the installation, followed by Oz in motion. Social post published on 2 October 2026. Exhibition; original video.