Th uncoveredcollection Hypernormalisation exhibition will feature work by MRes student Catia Silvestre.
Hypernormalistion is a state of being where people have become increasingly accustomed to bizarre and surreal events no longer seeing them as abnormal.
Characterised by a form of cognitive dissidence typified by people continuing to act as normal even though they know society is breaking down and the system around them is collapsing.
Private View – Friday 26th September
(6pm to 9pm)
Exhibition open – Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September
(10am to 4pm)
Safehouse 1
137 Copeland Road
London
SE15 3SN
Dea TETA Optima Maxima is a sculptural embodiment of hyper-femininity rendered as a divine grotesque. Drawing from fertility iconography, religious statuary, and body horror, the work presents a monstrous maternal figure, overabundant, exaggerated, and impossible to ignore. At once divine and abject, she stands as a symbol of societal expectations placed on the female body: to nurture, to produce, to satisfy.
The sculpture captures the surreal dissonance at the core of hypernormalisation, where grotesque distortions of gender and care are normalised and even celebrated. By pushing maternal symbolism to a monstrous extreme, Dea TETA exposes the absurdity of a collapsing system that clings to its rituals and icons, blind to their perversion.
