Ang Xia Yi - "Wasting Time"
Ang Xia Yi - "Wasting Time"
TITLE: Wasting Time
YEAR: 2024
MEDIUM: Domestic Textiles
(cotton baby napkins from 1990s, cotton-canvas, cotton- polyester mixed fabric topstitched with cotton threads)
SIZE: 35 × 26.5 cm
Ang Xia Yi (b. 1996, Kuala Lumpur) is an artist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her practice focuses on history, memory, identity politics and the emotional consequences of colonialism, as well as wider issues concerning Southeast Asia. She embraces a mixed-media approach moving seamlessly between photography, drawing, painting and archival intervention using everyday materials such as inherited domestic textiles. Her interest lies in the vernacular aspects of material culture, viewing materials as carriers of intimacy, trauma and violence that transcend beyond generations.
In 2017, she briefly pursued her BA in Fashion Journalism at Central Saint Martins, London and has previously worked in image and garment-making. In 2021, she was selected to participate in a residency programme by Openbooks International (Wales) with The Godown (Kuala Lumpur) and China Academy of Art (Hangzhou). Her most recent group exhibitions include Interwoven Realities (2024) at HARTA Space, Kuala Lumpur, Ways Of Seeing (2023) at CULT Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, and 1000 Tiny Artworks (2023) at The Back Room, Kuala Lumpur.