My God, You Are So Ugly!!

In Amy Sillman’s Essay “Shit Happens, Notes on Awkwardness”, she describes the process of creating akin to looking down at your own self and reflecting on its undesirableness. She writes, “Like the body, you look down at your creation and think, ‘My god, you are ugly’.”

Artists Will Zeng, Lily Wai Brennan, and Ellen O’Shea’s work reflects parallel moments of unease. Their work inhabits these visceral moments together in a shared space, both insulting and confiding in being deemed ‘ugly’”.