Sugar for the Pill: the false nostalgia of Lexi Hide’s teenage scenes
Sugar for the Pill is Lexi Hide’s ongoing investigation into nostalgia as a constructed and unreliable form of memory.
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InterviewsThe fictions of nostalgia in Lexi Hide’s Sugar for the PillIn conversation with Lexi Hide on memory, imagination, and the myths of youth.By Maria Spadoni BattistoniJune 26, 2026Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyAfter presenting Sugar for the Pill at the 10th edition of the PhotoVogue Festival: Women by Women, Lexi Hide reflects on the memories, friendships, and moments of rebellion that shaped her photographic world.Lexi Hide, Dust it Off School uniforms, bruised knees, bedrooms, fireworks, moments suspended between danger and boredom: Lexi Hide’s Sugar for the Pill is a return to teenage girlhood. The series’ title echoes Simon Scott & Slowdive’s 2017 shoegaze anthem, a song steeped in longing, distance, and the melancholy of looking back.
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