Making Heads Turn

EMnXW’s creative series, ‘Heads’, a collection of portrait sculptures made from objects, memories, imagination, and an interest in medical imagery, is quite literally making heads turn.

- Priyanka Menon

When was the last time you counted the number of thoughts that ran simultaneously through your head? How many times have you created scenes and scenarios in your head only to have them pan out differently in reality? EMnXW, an artist duo comprising of Edwige Massart and Xavier Wynn, has created a series of surrealist portraits of the inner workings of the human head.

Aptly named ‘Heads’, the cerebral sculpture series can be interpreted as an attempt to lay open the clutter that exists in the average human head. Made up of found objects, memories, imagination, and an abject fascination with medical imagery, “the artwork is a marriage of interests and an exploration into identity,” say the Chicago based duo.

Edwige is an art facilitator for the developmentally disabled, while Xavier works in marketing. “In our spare time, we make art,” they say.

Each artwork is essentially a story told through the elements it is made up of. Sourced from Edwige’s personal collection of found objects, every item is a part of the vocabulary and grammatical structure of the plotline. She found her first piece (of the collection) of a roman mosaic in the desert of Israel when she was just about four years old.