7 May—15 August, 2026

Auntiescapes

Participating artists
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

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 AI-generated works and an interactive installation, the body becomes geological, layered with 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 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 imprinted into our subconscious.
The exhibition invites the viewer to loosen the labels and standards imposed on the female body and encounter it again as something unstable, complex, and alive.
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
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 AI-generated works and an interactive installation, the body becomes geological, layered with 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 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 imprinted into our subconscious.
The exhibition invites the viewer to loosen the labels and standards imposed on the female body and encounter it again as something unstable, complex, and alive.
ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com


Private visits and events:
isabel@load-gallery.com

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OPENING HOURS

Thursday, Friday and Saturday
4 PM — 8 PM


Gallery admission is free

@Load Gallery 2023-2026

ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com


Private visits and events:
isabel@load-gallery.com

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

OPENING HOURS

Thursday, Friday and Saturday
4 PM — 8 PM


Gallery admission is free

@Load Gallery 2023-2026

ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com


Private visits and events:
isabel@load-gallery.com

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES
OPENING HOURS

Thursday, Friday and Saturday
4 PM — 8 PM


Gallery admission is free

@Load Gallery 2023-2026