Expect satirical beauty salons and brutally honest advertising magazines in Sabrina Tirvengadum’s ‘Beauty Fall’ exhibition opening 29th April 2026 at SPACE Ilford in East London this spring
A new, satirical beauty salon installation alongside a tongue-in-cheek beauty magazine and series of AI-generated photographs are all part of Sabrina Tirvengadum’s new exhibition Beauty Fall opening at SPACE Ilford in East London on 29th April and running until August 2026.
Beauty-Fall exhibition at SPACE Ilford
Ley Lines exhibition at SPACE Ilford
At six, artist Sabrina Tirvengadum made a birthday wish to be pretty. She meant lighter skin and straighter hair to look less like herself. Beauty Fall will show how that childhood wish, shaped by colonial beauty standards, now runs through AI algorithms trained on white European beauty ideals.

Visitors can expect to find AI-generated beauty ads, an interactive beauty analysis scan and installations exposing colonial influences on algorithmic beauty standards.

This will be a beauty salon like no other – making visible what’s usually hidden. Adverts will drop their masks and say what they really mean. Beauty products will depict honest labels about the damage they do. AI doesn’t generate diverse faces. 3D-printed beauty masks of the artist’s grandparents will watch over the space as witnesses to ancestors who have been deliberately left out of the record.

Ley Lines exhibition at SPACE Ilford
Beauty Fall will ask audiences to question what happens when we actually see the system for what it is, say no to it and claim back the features our ancestors gave us, the ones which colonial beauty culture keeps trying to erase.