Digital subculture: Narrative & Story in the Digital Era

Digital Subculture: Narrative & Story in the Digital Era, 23 April to 28 June 2026

niceaunties presents two works from the Jelly City series as part of Digital Subculture: Narrative & Story in the Digital Era at Busan Museum of Art, running from 23 April to 28 June 2026. Displayed on a 2x2m outdoor LED screen in the museum's Sculpture Garden alongside other digital artists, the works are also screened concurrently at Busan Station and on the Yukaro Motors billboard at Haeundae Beach.

Jellybay And Why You Don't See Giant Aunties On Land (2026) unfolds through landscapes inspired by niceaunties' journey to Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, where extraordinary limestone formations became the foundation for a surreal reimagining. Their silhouettes transform into imaginary giant aunties balanced in yoga poses, extending the soft, translucent logic of Jelly City into the natural world. The sea becomes a site where the auntie body can expand monumentally, merging with the contours of rock and horizon.

19:19 (2025) opens with a familiar Hokkien greeting, "Jia ba buey?" (Have you eaten?), drawing on childhood memories of kitchens filled with the sounds of women chatting, steam rising, and the smells of evening cooking. The video imagines aunties busy in Jelly City, telephoning one another, stretching, and mostly cooking, remaking an early 2023 golden hour video through the flooded metropolis where aunties and their jelly companions run businesses and, occasionally, still eat jellies.

Jelly City is one of many worlds within the Auntieverse, an expanding fictional universe by niceaunties that reimagines the cultural archetype of the auntie through speculative storytelling across art, film, and technology.