when: 22 February 2024 | | address: Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), | website: https://www.ace.gallery/whats-on/exhibitions/yucky
published: 22 Feb 2024, 5 min read
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Yucky is a group exhibition that explores the personal and political complexities that exist as part of disabled experience.
People seeing me and yet pretending not to see.
The fear is palpable sometimes.
They fear me because I'm yucky.
Yeah, drooling and weeing all over the place.
Like you ables don't.
- excerpt from Fear by Sam Petersen
Yucky is a group exhibition that explores the personal and political complexities that exist as part of disabled experience. The exhibition's premise and title has been led by artist Sam Petersen in conversation with ACE.
Featuring new and recent work by a mix of pivotal Australian and international contemporary artists, the exhibition centres the perspectives and experiences of those who are disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent.
Yucky has been developed by Sam Petersen, facilitated by Rayleen Forester, Grace Marlow and Patrice Sharkey, in conversation with public program curators William Maggs and Hen Vaughan.
Feature Image: Sam Petersen, Wee, 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
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Yucky is a group exhibition that explores the personal and political complexities that exist as part of disabled experience.
People seeing me and yet pretending not to see.
The fear is palpable sometimes.
They fear me because I'm yucky.
Yeah, drooling and weeing all over the place.
Like you ables don't.
- excerpt from Fear by Sam Petersen
Yucky is a group exhibition that explores the personal and political complexities that exist as part of disabled experience. The exhibition's premise and title has been led by artist Sam Petersen in conversation with ACE.
Featuring new and recent work by a mix of pivotal Australian and international contemporary artists, the exhibition centres the perspectives and experiences of those who are disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent.
Yucky has been developed by Sam Petersen, facilitated by Rayleen Forester, Grace Marlow and Patrice Sharkey, in conversation with public program curators William Maggs and Hen Vaughan.
Feature Image: Sam Petersen, Wee, 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
Go see Yucky 2024.

Yucky 2024 is on 22 February 2024. The opening hours are: 11:00am - 4:00pm. Conveniently located in Adelaide. Call +61-0882117505 for details. Visit their website at https://www.ace.gallery/whats-on/exhibitions/yucky.
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