Season of exhibitions exploring the profound complexities of human relationships, desire, and intimacy.
How Do We Find Love? explores the profound complexities of human relationships, desire, and intimacy through three stand-alone exhibitions.
The Last Human Kiss (14 November 2026 – 11 April 2027) traces visual depictions of kissing from pre-history to its mediated, digital and post-human forms in the 21st century. This exhibition explores the kiss as a universal language through which desire, power, vulnerability and transcendence have been expressed and contested for millennia.
Ecstasy and the Aftermath (14 November 2026 – 11 April 2027) is an exhibition about how love is formed, broken and remembered through concepts of myth and ritual. Exploring desire, ecstasy, memory, and the traces that remain in love’s aftermath, Ecstasy and the Aftermath features works by Francis Bacon, Penny Goring, Jonathan Baldock, Penny Slinger, Maya Weishof, and Holly Stevenson's Love Bomb installation.
Love Stories (19 December 2026 – 30 May 2027) presents photographers who use duration to capture the raw reality of everyday intimacy – exploding the idealised notions of love prevalent in popular culture and revealing instead the complex mix of mundane, humorous, painful and joyful emotions at the heart of human relationships.
Playful, honest, poetic or sardonic, these photographic works draw attention to the subtly shifting dynamics involved in loving and being loved, whether romantic, familial or platonic.

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