HELL
Ys Blue
21 March – 18 April 2026

Performance: Saturday 21 March, 9pm

HELL is an exhibition by Ys Blue that examines the enduring influence of Christian fundamentalism and its entanglement with contemporary political power. Drawing on ideas of surveillance and voyeurism, the work considers how ideology shapes the ways bodies are governed. Referencing necropolitics, the power structures that determine whose lives are protected and whose are expendable, HELL situates religious belief within broader systems of control. At a moment when reports have surfaced of United States military personnel encouraging apocalyptic Christian narratives among young soldiers, Blue’s project turns toward the body as a site where these beliefs materialise. Through this lens, HELL is a critique of ideological systems and the social consequences they produce, asking viewers to reflect on their own position within the structures they witness.

The exhibition follows a performance by the artist in collaboration with Odeious and Veale Moss on Saturday 21 March, 9pm, which acts as the project’s initiating gesture. The performance introduces the body as a site of inscription, where ideology, faith and violence converge.


Ys Blue  is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, practicing within the realms of object making, poetry, performance, and the expanded field of craft. Their practice is driven by a material obsession that aspires to undress taboos, interrogate subsumation, and resist commodification. Often working between the liturgical and the pornographic, Blue undoes the binds of function, discipline, and exchange. Blue completed a diploma in Art and Craft (Ceramics) from Hungry Creek Art and Craft School in 2017 and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture) from AUT in 2020.