At the Seams, Spilling

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Alexis Chivir-ter Tsegba’s practice is guided by what she describes as a “collage brain”: a cross-temporal mode of thinking and making grounded in assembling, disassembling, returning and recomposing. She treats collage not only as a technique but as a way of moving through time — one that mirrors the cyclical, recursive nature of memory. Her work embraces experimentation, irrational juxtaposition and semi-structured chaos, allowing past, present and speculative futures to coexist and continuously reshape one another.


Bringing together works created between 2021 and 2025, the exhibition explores how memory and time travel through bodies, landscapes and the cosmos, articulated through African visual vocabularies and symbolism. Drawing on African spiritual philosophies and metaphysics, Tsegba approaches these themes through intimacy, tenderness and queer desire. Across the works, time is rendered as non-linear and relational: bodies become porous thresholds, love functions as a form of timekeeping, and ancestral knowledge emerges as a living force that informs future possibilities. Together, the works trace a personal and cultural arc — from portals of becoming, to intimacies sustained across geographies, to the rituals that shape diasporic experience.

In The Sublime Gaze, the body becomes a quiet terrain of sensation, resistance, and revelation. These works do not seek clarity; instead, they drift between image and impression, asking us to linger in the thresholds: between gaze and gesture, form and feeling, signal and silence.

Each portrait unfolds gradually, as an act of becoming, a suspended intimacy, a soft rupture in the cycle of spectacle—where the body is not reduced, but revered; not narrated, but felt. The digital here does not disembody; it extends, becoming a vessel for presence as atmosphere. These images hold space for the unseen, the unresolved, the trembling stillness of simply being. 

To witness these figures is to encounter a mirror that does not reflect, but quietly reveals.

Artworks

Between the Lines, 2025

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Mirror Into Auntieverse is an interactive installation that reframes photography as a live negotiation between body, machine and cultural memory. First presented at Paris Photo 2025, the work embeds motion capture and real time rendering within a nineteenth century Napoleon III mirror frame. When visitors approach, their reflections are replaced by animated aunties from the Auntieverse, niceaunties’ ongoing AI driven world building project that repositions the Asian auntie archetype as protagonist rather than stereotype.

The interactive mirror installation has been produced in collaboration with Load Gallery.

Medium: Physical Sculpture, screen with antique frame
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
121 x 86 cm
Unique Artwork

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A work of moving landscape art showing a smoking volcano flexing its legs, rotating its ankles, stretching, relaxing in expansive rolling pasture. The scene gradually reveals it to be made entirely of body parts, and eventually zooms out to reveal it as part of a system of living beings, then part of a larger auntie being, which is shown to exist within a volcano, folding back on itself both in a time loop and in the body. For a moment, tiny clay creatures emerge from the volcano, referencing the myth of the goddess Nvwa creating humankind from the earth.

Medium: Video
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
Includes an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (unframed)
Unique pair of artworks

€ 12,500 ex VAT

Hold Space for me, 2022

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A static scene of a waterfall peacefully existing and morphing. On closer look, the layers of the fall are composed of dermis, over time collapsing and reconstructing with the appearance of the full moon. For a moment, an auntie and her leg emerge in the falls, only to disappear, leaving behind her laughter, akin to glimpsing a creature darting by in nature. Water is a symbol of abundance and wealth. In the Auntieverse, falls remind one to stay focused on the flow amidst the rise and fall of landscapes.

Medium: Video
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
Includes an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (unframed)
Unique pair of artworks

€ 12,500 ex VAT

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A static scene of an auntie continuously cycling, moving endlessly through changing seasons of a slice of the Auntieverse. It is unclear where exactly she is, except the ground she is pedalling is filled with dermis, flowers and crystals. Occasionally, goats accompany her journey. A bonsai plant emerges, the moon sets and the sun rises. Through the frozen cold the auntie takes a rest but still pedals away, until the scene returns to its original timeline and the cycle begins again.

Medium: Video
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
Includes an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (unframed)
Unique pair of artworks

€ 12,500 ex VAT

Lover’s Moon II, 2023

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The auntie angel patiently pours tea into a cup that never fills up, unbothered and moisturised, resting and chilling while the landscape around her flourishes from the flow of abundance and balance of energy. Eventually she rests while unknown hands balance the tea between two cups, getting a massage. The Auntgel is extremely patient while the world changes around her, waiting for no one, yet blissfully waiting. The impatient black cat wanders by. A major arcana in the Auntieverse.

Medium: Video

Duration: 5 min
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
Includes an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (unframed)
Unique pair of artworks

€ 12,500 ex VAT

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The auntie scales and runs about in a landscape of crystals, flesh and goats, in an endless parkour and exploratory exercise, accompanied by the moon, to reveal that she is on a planet in the multiverse, continuously morphing and leveling up. Even if the journey seems endless, the curiosity, the process, and stopping to pose for an imaginary selfie is what she enjoys the most.

Medium: Video
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
Includes an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (unframed)
Unique pair of artworks

€ 12,500 ex VAT

In Time II , 2024

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Made during a full moon, the artwork is a surreal reflection on the accumulation of old unwanted energy stored in the body, akin to junk waiting to be vacuumed out. The body is expressed as a storage system full of drawers and levers, squeaking and creaking as they are being opened to be cleaned. The moon has its own storage too.

Medium: Video

Duration: 0 min 33 sec
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
Includes an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (unframed)
Unique pair of artworks

€ 12,500 ex VAT

In Time III, 2024

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Zips open and close on auntie’s various body parts to reveal mechanical insides, mini aunties and food. If only surgeries were conducted this way, it would be way easier and simpler. A reflection on the body as a holder of light, information and what we eat, and that even if it is a temporary home, it is to be cherished and protected.

Medium: Video

Duration: 0 min 33 sec
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
Includes an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (unframed)
Unique pair of artworks

€ 12,500 ex VAT

Sound of a Bloom, 2025

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A study on how it feels as an ageing body attempts to pick up exercise and movement. It may feel like one is picking up a building or getting an expired machine to restart. Even if it seems daunting, it does get easier. The dancing cat cheers auntie on.

Medium: Video

Duration: 0 min 33 sec
Technique: AI collaborative digital art
Includes an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (unframed)
Unique pair of artworks

€ 12,500 ex VAT

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ADDRESS

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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