“I find the virtual world more interesting,” the Chinese installation artist Cao Fei told The White Review in 2016. “I really mean that. I can walk around, overhear conversations, speak to anyone I like. I feel freer there.” Not surprisingly, Cao Fei’s installations evoke parallel worlds and virtual realities, realms in which she constructs social experiments and fictional cities. Often looking to the future, she depicts globalization’s dramatic effects. In this exhibition in Munich, Cao Fei explores digital technologies and the ways they effect social change. Spoiler: There are octopuses involved. —Elena Clavarino