About the Artwork

‘Arrangement’ Series is a gathering of all flowers in our family home since the 1990s, compressing the interior and domestic into one pictorial space brought together by the simple criterion of flora.

For this arrangement, I documented everything recognizably floral, made digital cut-outs, and assembled them as a visual catalog of the interior world I am currently quarantined in.

About the Artist

Lesley-Anne Cao is a visual artist based in Quezon City, Philippines.

Her work is a series of processes and divergent practices that revolve around art-making, the exhibition, and fiction. Recent works use recognizable materials such as books, plants, debris, precious metals, and money, enacting displacements and substitutions by way of creating sets and narratives.

Cao holds a BFA from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts – Diliman. Recent exhibitions include The hand, the secretary, a landscape at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2018), a knowing intimacy or a life at the U.P. Vargas Museum (2019), and the New Cinema Competition program at the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in the UK (2019). She has been granted artist residencies in Taiwan and Finland and has also presented work in Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Indonesia.