SICKly SWEET REVENGE

In Summer 2025, Kika Sroka-Miller co-curated, produced, and programmed Sickly Sweet Revenge with artist Miranda Pissarides. Presented in partnership with Hypha Studios, Marble Arch, London, the exhibition was accompanied by a three-week public events programme that included talks, workshops, performances, and the inaugural Silver Press Literary Labs.

The exhibition featured work by Lolly Adams, Ornagh, Sharon Le Grande, W.H.Y., Delia Detritus, Miranda Pissarides, and Sroka-Miller. The artworks encompassed painting, sculpture, sound, XR, VR, performance, installation, photography, and drawing.

Sickly Sweet Revenge examined the notion of uncategorisability, especially in relation to femininity, at a moment when ideas of the monstrous, the abject, and the vulgar were resurfacing in public discourse within the visual arts. Its title was drawn from Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness: “Slime is the revenge of the In-itself. A sickly-sweet, feminine revenge which will be symbolised on another level by the quality ‘sugary.’”

The exhibition and events programme brought together artists, writers, publishers and cultural programmers whose work engages with form, (im)materiality, subjectivity, body and being under the impetus of revenge. An impulse felt amongst all participants especially given the weight of the UK Supreme Court’s judgement on the meaning of “sex” made in the Spring of 2025.

Exhibition information including, full list of works, floor plan and artists’ biographies.