Singaporean Artist Gains International Following For Her Sculptures Of Body Parts
A Singaporean student has gained an international following on social media for her macabre sculptures of body parts, including a pie with little hearts for filling, tiny baby faces in pistachio nut shells and miniature brains.
More: Lim Qi Xuan, Instagram h/t: straitstimes
Artist Lim Qi Xuan, who goes by the moniker qimmyshimmy online, has more than 115,000 followers on Instagram from around the world. She finds inspiration from everyday objects, and pursues her hobby despite being a graphic designer by profession as “there is a part of me that just wants to make things that express my inner world and strangeness”.
“I was trying to showcase a future scenario of genetically modified animals, and started sculpting then,” she said.
“I have always been quite fascinated with the tactility of flesh and skin,” she said.
Objects have two sides to them, she said. She mused that flesh is symbolic both of life and death, as something that can at once be capable of being alive and pulsing, but can in the next moment lose that quality.
She compared it to how people find realistic dolls pretty but do not want to sleep in the same room as them.
“I like my art to have that similar tension; to present something precious and charming, but then there are these little elements that creep you out,” she said.
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