New exhibition at Load Gallery: Auntiescapes, the body as a living landscape

Load Gallery presents the exhibition Auntiescapes, in which the artist niceaunties explores the body as a living landscape—a terrain that renews itself, remembers, and responds to invisible forces.

Building on previous research into beauty, skin, and social expectations, the exhibition turns inward to examine how energy, emotion, and cultural conditioning are inscribed onto the physical self.

Through AI-generated works and an interactive installation, the body becomes geological, layered by time, shaped by cycles, and inseparable from its environment. Hot Bod and Cycles address menopausal transformation and bodily renewal. Body Bag and Junk Butt consider surgical access and emotional accumulation. Temperance reimagines well-being as an act of continuous calibration rather than perfection.

At the heart of the exhibition, Mirror into the Auntieverse replaces the viewer’s reflection with a frank and familiar “auntie,” confronting the internalized voice of judgment that shapes self-perception. What appears as humor reveals a deeper mechanism of control—cultural, inherited, and deeply embedded in our subconscious.

The exhibition will be on view from May 7 to August 15.