
Fruiting Bodies
- Publisher
- Perimeter Editions
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-1-922545-44-2
- Specifications
- OTA bind softcover
23 x 27 cm
160 pages
2000 copies
Printed offset by Wilco Art Books, Netherlands
Honorable Mention Pollux Prize and International Photography Awards
Julia Margaret Cameron Award (nature category)
Finalist Encontros da Imagem Book Award, Form Photo Award, Lucie Foundation Book Prize
Visual artist Ying Ang reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative force that challenges dominant narratives of fertility and the female body. She examines how the fetishisation of fertility shapes cultural perceptions of women, nature, and reproduction, questioning whether growth and abundance must always serve a reproductive imperative. The fungal model is a form of fertility that is rhizomatic rather than hierarchical, collective rather than possessive, disruptive rather than obedient; just as mycelium persists unseen beneath the forest floor, connecting and shaping ecosystems, women continue to shape society in profound ways.