Cao Fei: Blueprints review – would you trade love for progress?

Serpentine Gallery, LondonThe Chinese artist searches for meaning in times of great change – from communist lovers caught in the 50s Sino-Soviet divide to modern warehouse workers who can’t relate Love doesn’t figure highly in the Serpentine Gallery’s critical lexicon – too sentimental perhaps, too old-fashioned. But it pulses, unmentioned, beneath the surface of Cao Fei’s Blueprints. Love is evidence that we are recognised as individuals, as significant. Love