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Publisher Note

The fruiting bodies of the title refer to the mushrooms that Ying Ang photographed in Melbourne’s parks, through their cycles of growth, decay and regeneration. Ang’s mushrooms are earthy, found sculptures: bodies with expanses of folds, wrinkles and yearnings for darkness and light.

Photographed while walking through inner-city parks close to the artist’s home in Melbourne, the series also examines how the fetishization of fertility has shaped cultural perceptions of women, nature and reproduction, questioning whether growth and abundance must always serve a reproductive imperative.

Photobook

Fruiting Bodies

by Ying Ang

Publisher
Release Place Melbourne, Australia
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2025
Credits
Writer: Ying Ang
Artist: Ying Ang
Printrun 2000
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 9781922545442
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Mushrooms; Melbourne Australia;
Methods Photography
Language English
Format Softcover
Dimensions 23.0 × 27.0 cm
Pages 160