« The body as a malleable social and personal emblem is the subject of « Performing the Self, » the first of the two superbly installed thematic sections at International Center of Photography, where there’s room for the show to really open up. A funny, needling video by Cao Fei – one of the show’s youngest artist and one of its unusually high number of women – is set in a corporate office, though the performers are made up to look like a cross between humans and dogs ».

Holland Cotter, New York Times, USA, June 11, 2004.