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cbabe

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Sat Jul 20, 2024, 11:08 AM Jul 2024

Childless cat ladies: Into the Auntieverse: a surreal fantasy of older women

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/19/auntieverse-art-niceaunties-surreal-fantasy-older-women

Into the Auntieverse: a surreal fantasy of older women

Inspired by her own family, Singaporean artist Niceaunties puts aunties at the heart of the world she conjures up

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent
Fri 19 Jul 2024 09.46 EDT

There are high-rise living quarters built from stacks of Tupperware, spas where you can immerse yourself in a giant bowl of ramen and an altar where you can pay your respects to the Supreme Perm Goddess.

Welcome to Auntieverse, a world built by, and ruled by aunties, filled with everything aunties love.



In the Auntieverse, aunties dance in sequined outfits on the beach, pose with giant vegetables, and attend Nasa, (the Nice Aunties Sushi Academy), a cooking school located on the moon, where aunties undergo training, under the watchful eye of a giant cat.

Acronyms are a common feature in the Auntieverse (a nod to Singapore’s love of abbreviations), as are puns. You can ride a tofu-engineered sushi luxury auto (a Tesla), a transportation method that is made from tofu and sushi, and powered by legs. It’s based on wordplay: in the Chinese Hokkien dialect, the word for “leg” sounds the same as the English word for “car”, says Niceaunties.

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Childless cat ladies: Into the Auntieverse: a surreal fantasy of older women (Original Post) cbabe Jul 2024 OP
Bizarre, but fascinating. Thank you for sharing. niyad Jul 2024 #1
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