Niceaunties celebrates older women's vibrancy through AI art

In Singapore, artist Niceaunties has emerged as a transformative figure in the contemporary art scene by blending her cultural roots with innovative AI technology. She focuses on the figure of the 'auntie', which is often negatively framed in society, and instead reimagines these women as vibrant characters in her surreal worlds. Her works depict alternate realities where aunties live out their dreams without societal judgement, thereby addressing themes of ageing, personal freedom, and the extraordinary within the ordinary. Niceaunties uses AI as a tool to explore her ideas about the challenges women face in suppressing their identities through societal expectations. The artist’s work culminated in a solo exhibition at Expanded.Art gallery, featuring five videos and two physical prints. Among these was