Ivona Tau presents works from her UnBeautiful series alongside three stand-alone videos—My Body is a Surreal Machine, Coming of Age, and Unresolved Apologies to Body. Across these pieces, glitching and stuttering visuals expose the tension between the female body and algorithmic ideals. Trained on biased datasets, the machine fabricates a distorted vision of femininity, shaped by deepfakes, social media, and AI. Yet the body resists—each glitch becomes an interruption, reclaiming presence within systems built for conformity.

UnBeautiful directly confronts the pervasive misrepresentation of women in AI-generated imagery, particularly within community-trained models that often portray women in hypersexualised, fetishised ways shaped by a narrow, male-dominated gaze. Using finetuned diffusion models trained on her archive of analogue photographs, Tau produces glitched, fragmented portraits that carry a semi-documentary weight. Through these images, the artist questions the beauty standards perpetuated by AI and advocates for alternative depictions of the female body that embrace imperfection and reflect the complexity of lived experience.