auntiescapes

“Works of Body”Solo exhibition at Load Gallery, Barcelona
7 May – 15 Aug 2026

An elderly woman sits on the edge of a grassy landscape in a surreal scene with a large moon and starry sky in the background. She is wearing a pink dress and appears to be peering into a contrasting underground world filled with colorful minerals, crystals, and small flowers, with two white goats standing nearby.

The Body is

a mirror

a projection of our inner world

a vessel for held and unspoken feelings

a fragment of a larger soul

a delicate balance

a world of organisms

the planet Earth

a universe within

Beautiful

a nice auntie sleeping on a grass and meat bed

Auntiescapes explores the body as a living landscape, a terrain that renews, remembers, and responds to unseen forces. Building on earlier investigations into beauty, skin, and societal expectation, the exhibition turns inward to examine how energy, emotion, and cultural conditioning inscribe themselves onto the physical self.

Across works spanning AI-generated digital art and interactive installation, the body becomes geological, layered with time, shaped by cycles, and inseparable from its environment. hotbod and cycles address menopausal transformation and bodily renewal. body bag and junkbutt consider surgical access and emotional accumulation. auntgel reimagines wellbeing as an act of continuous calibration rather than perfection.

At the centre of the exhibition, Mirror into the Auntieverse replaces the viewer’s reflection with a blunt, familiar auntie, confronting the internalised voice of judgement that shapes self-perception. What appears as humour reveals a deeper mechanism of control, one that is cultural, inherited, and deeply personal.

The exhibition invites the viewer to loosen the labels imposed on the body and encounter it again as something unstable, complex, and alive.

Auntiescapes exhibition catalogue, Load Gallery Barcelona

Elderly woman with gray hair in a pink dress bending over while standing in water at sunset, surrounded by autumn trees, flowers, and decorative crystal elements.
An elderly woman with long, flowing white hair reclining on a surreal, icy landscape at night. The background features a starry sky, a twisted bonsai-like tree, ice formations, and flowers growing out of the icy terrain.
Elderly woman sitting on the edge of a cross-section of earth, with grass, flowers, and crystals on top, over water, in a fantasy scene.
A surreal digital collage featuring an elderly woman sitting on a grassy surface with a full moon in the starry night sky behind her. She is surrounded by crystal formations and small flowering plants. To her right, there are two white goats standing
Elderly woman sitting on swirling, patterned surface resembling a cross-section of stone or mineral, by the sea at night. The scene features a starry sky with shooting star, a gnarled tree, flowers, and crystal formations.
A surreal scene with a large moon in the sky, an elderly woman with white hair and a pink dress walking along a mossy, green landscape with pink flowers and tree roots, as if floating in space.
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