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A pale silicone foot sits on a pile of dark brown hair on a concrete floor
Donglin Song
Thu 23 Apr 2026 - Sat 25 Apr 2026
That's Because by Donglin Song
Exhibition
Visual Arts

That's Because is an exhibition by Donglin Song considering how human emotion and desire are displaced, transferred, and projected beyond the human body. Through soft, touchable materials and restrained forms of interaction, the exhibition explores transgression not as excess or shock, but as a subtle crossing-where feeling slips from one body to another, from the human to the non-human.

The works focus on moments in which intimacy emerges toward machines, objects, and material surfaces. These encounters do not aim to explain or categorise desire, but to acknowledge its movement: how affect attaches itself to what is usually considered inert, functional, or neutral. In this sense, transgression operates quietly, through proximity, pressure, and hesitation.

Rather than illustrating specific fetishes or identities, the exhibition offers a space for sensing what is difficult to name. Touch becomes a way of thinking, and softness a site where emotion, projection, and restraint coexist. thats because holds these encounters without judgement, allowing desire to appear as a relation-unstable, indirect, and unresolved.

Please note that there are mature themes in this exhibition.

44 Canal Road
Leeds
LS12 2PL
United Kingdom

53.8007048, -1.5825577

    Date
    Thu 23 Apr 2026 - Sat 25 Apr 2026
    Thu 23 Apr 2026
    18:00 - 22:00
    Fri 24 Apr 2026
    18:00 - 21:00
    Sat 25 Apr 2026
    11:00 - 15:00

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