Flowerhead

Ang Xia Yi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Flowerhead pays homage to Simryn Gill’s A Small Town At The Turn Of The Century (1999 – 2000) in which subjects’ heads were substituted with tropical fruit. Gill’s work explores how an artwork’s subjects can be anonymized and their individual identities become variable with simple changes in their appearances and environment. The Flowerhead series explores similar terrain; individuals’ heads are hidden by excessively large bouquets to defamiliarize and thus turn humans into something strange, while humanizing the natural world around them. 

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Ang Xia Yi is a visual storyteller and multidisciplinary artist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia who works across the mediums of photography, fashion journalism and graphic design. In 2017, she began pursuing her degree in Fashion Journalism, at the University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins. She had interned with the London-based fashion houses, Hussein Chalayan and Xu Zhi. Visit her website: https://x1ay1.com