niceaunties (b. 1981) is the pseudonym of Wenhui Lim, a Singapore-based artist who turned from a nineteen-year career in architecture to creating the Auntieverse, an AI-generated speculative world that reimagines older Southeast Asian women — 'aunties' — as central, empowered figures. Her work explores ageing, beauty, and the societal expectations placed on women through surreal, humor-filled imagery.
She began making AI art at the beginning of 2023. Drawing on her great-grandmother, mother, and eleven aunts, she created Auntieverse, a speculative online world spanning ten chapters released through Fellowship's platform Daily.xyz in 2024. Individual chapters restage aunties inside settings such as a Tupperware-built city and a beauty spa where they undergo exaggerated treatments, using humor to probe ageing and beauty standards. In Auntlantis (2024), a video series inspired by Plato's Atlantis and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, auntie-mermaids clean a plastic-choked ocean floor. For Christie's Art+Tech Summit in 2024, she was commissioned to create Along the River in Auntieverse, reimagining Zhang Zeduan's 12th-century scroll painting Along the River during the Qingming Festival as a commentary on water pollution and the overlooked contributions of women.
