Auntiescapes by niceaunties
Overview
Auntiescapes is a new exhibition by Singaporean artist niceaunties, presented at Load in Barcelona. The show expands her ongoing Auntieverse, an AI-driven world where the “auntie” becomes the main character: funny, sharp, caring, critical, and impossible to reduce to a stereotype.
This new body of work looks at the body as a landscape. Skin, flesh, emotion, memory, ageing, beauty routines, and internal pressure all become part of strange, vivid worlds. At the centre is an interactive mirror installation where your reflection is replaced by an auntie offering the kind of blunt observation many people will recognize immediately.
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About
niceaunties is the moniker of Wenhui Lim, a Singaporean artist, designer, and speaker working with AI, digital art, mixed media, and speculative storytelling. Her Auntieverse project reimagines ageing women as powerful, funny, complex protagonists, drawing from Asian auntie culture, surrealism, fantasy, kawaii aesthetics, and her background in architecture.
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FrikiFish Note
Auntiescapes sounds like the kind of AI show that actually has a point. Instead of using technology just for spectacle, niceaunties builds a whole world around ageing, judgement, care, beauty, and the strange emotional weather we carry in our bodies.
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