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Installation view of the Cao Fei: My City is Yours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

An installation view of the Cao Fei: My City Is Yours exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

PHOTO: CAO FEI

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SYDNEY – Step through the double doors of Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales’ modern wing, and you are confronted with a geographical whiplash.

Meditating serenely to the left is a garlanded statuette of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha.

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