Hue
Fuck You to Generational Trauma, 2024
Photographed by Oona Robertson
Makeup by Izzy Macala
Courtesy of the artist

This work is on loan for the exhibition, Living Here, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, June 20 - December 20, 2025

Collaboration–with both people and nature–lies at the core of Hue’s art. After studying fashion at the Parsons School of Design in New York they developed a practice that revolves around mindfulness and embodiment, working on community-centered projects such as the cloud house, a free creative space, and TWYN: Take What You Need, an initiative that provides artists with materials. They use redesigned clothing and bodily adornment to stimulate feelings of positive self-worth. Fuck You to Generational Trauma brings these different areas of their practice together. Working closely with makeup artist Izzy Macala and art writer Oona Robertson, the artist created a region of healing in the desert outside Las Vegas.

In Robertson’s words, this project is “an antidote to generational trauma, using fashion, makeup, and place to construct an alternate world where we have shed our inherited patterns and healed our ancestral suffering by fully becoming ourselves. It depicts Hue and their mother and grandmother as 3 generations of Chinese femmes and immigrants surviving and thriving, but also through its collaborative production incorporates ideas of glamour medicine, drag, and chosen queer family.”