Expo (UN)SHAME
- 18 October 2025 4 January 2026
(UN)SHAME makes space for what we like to leave in the dark such as feelings that are too raw, bodies that diverge from the familiar, truths too heavy for polite conversation.
Here, shame is named, unmasked and kindly asked to relinquish its place.
What happens when we bring the unspeakable into the light?
What do our silences say, and what’s the cost of hiding?
What happens when we bring the unspeakable into the light — not to expose, but to understand, heal, resist?
Four artists explore the layers and ambiguities of shame — not as a finished result, but as an open-ended process. You’ll encounter the unspoken and the uncomfortable, the unfiltered and the intimate, vulnerable and defiant.
With Hanne Lamon, Giulia Cauti, Ugo Woatzi & Loïs Soleil.
On view from 18 October 2025 until 4 January 2026 at GUM & Botanical Garden.
The Artists
Hanne Lamon
For two decades, Hanne Lamon (°1982) has been crafting tranquil yet unruly photographs that capture the fragile poetry of everyday life. Her imagery balances intuition and rationality, speed and stillness, intimacy and abstraction. Whether through film photography, delicate printing processes or carefully chosen papers, Lamon creates a tactile, artisanal beauty that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. Her works emerge from moments of struggle, loss and hope, yet what they reveal is a timeless sensibility — photographs that conceal as much as they disclose, inviting viewers into a world that is at once intimate and connective.
Ugo Woatzi
Ugo Woatzi (°1991) is a Belgian visual artist whose work moves between photography, video and installation. Through a queer lens, Woatzi explores visibility, intimacy and resilience, often blurring the boundaries between vulnerability and strength. Their practice draws on collaboration and performance, creating images that are at once personal and political. With a sensitivity for both the body and its surroundings, Woatzi constructs spaces where multiplicity can thrive — resisting the hierarchies that label certain identities or desires as “unnatural.”
Loïs Soleil
Loïs Soleil is a Franco-Scottish artist inspired by net.art, pop culture and cultural studies. Working across performance, installation, poetry, code and sound, Soleil creates autobiographical work that is raw, direct and emotionally vulnerable in its “hyper intimacy.” Her practice addresses voyeurism, the female gaze, and cyber- and techno-feminism, often playing with the codes and languages of the internet: self-portraiture, relationships, and “bedroom culture.” Soleil studied Fine Arts and contemporary theory at Leeds University, ABA Glacière in Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and l’erg.
Giulia Cauti
Giulia Cauti is an Italian costume designer and stylist whose practice bridges fashion, performance and visual art. She holds a Master’s degree in Costume Design from the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp and a Bachelor’s in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Having lived and worked in the USA, Brazil and Italy, Cauti brings a wealth of experience from film, theatre, television and live events. Today, her practice expands into installation and digital art, where she explores how materials, bodies and performance can carry memory and transformation.
Chloé Wasselin-Dandre
Marjan Doom & Bethan Burnside
