Eros of Our Own

Pubis Project 2025 Exhibition

🖼️Exhibition Times

• [Opening Event] Fri 24 Oct, 18:00 - 20:00
• Sat 25 Oct, 11:00 - 18:30
• Sun 26 Oct, 11:00 - 16:00

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⭐Eros of Our Own Events⭐

FANDOMLINGO!: A guerrilla language exchange for otaku sisters by SPILLLL

14:00 - 17:00 Saturday 25 Oct 2025, pay what you can 🎟.

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Screening Event | Ritual for Omega and Alpha, video performance by Mai Endo and Natsu Usami

18:30 Saturday 25 October 2025, booking essential, get a free ticket now🎟.

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❤Pubis Project 2025 Exhibition: Eros of Our Own❤

Pubis Project is excited to announce our group exhibition at hARTslane, Eros of Our Own, showcasing works by artists based in the UK, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Australia, and Japan. The exhibition explores fandom culture as a site where queer-feminist counterpublics find strategies of resistance as well as unapologetic ways of recognising ourselves and each other and collectively re-write, self-identify, co-create, deconstruct heteronormative public discourses, and reconstruct power dynamics.

The title of the exhibition references the name of the fanart platform ‘Archive of Our Own/AO3’ and Andre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic. Guided by their spirits, the exhibition performs as a space where eros can be embodied, touched, and resonated through the shared language of fandom.

‘When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.’

- Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde

Curated by

Yujia Wang & Youjia Qian

Participating Artists

Babeworld are an art collective based across Stoke-on-Trent and London. Babeworld’s work uses popular-culture inspired film, installation and sound design to interrogate themes of political and societal identity, disability, access, neurodivergence and race.

CMDK10086 integrates visual art, experimental sound, and hyperdimensions, CMDK10086’s practice creates abstract structures of time and space.

Mai Endo is an artist and actor whose practice explores body politics through collaborative projects. Drawing on queer feminist theory, her work incorporates notions of passivity and failure as critical strategies, realized through performance, video, and the aesthetics of manga.

Liming Lin is a Berlin-based artist and writer. Liming’s practice includes moving images, writing, performance and fashion-design. Their work serves as an agency for multiple themes: Asian subculture, Multilingualism, colonial history and queer theory.

Bart Seng Wen Long is an artist, filmmaker and art worker, who works primarily with moving images and photographic mediums, while also dabbling in performance, expanded cinema and alternative curatorial processes. Bart’s practice revolves around the political economy of desire, encounters of otherness, and the transformative potential of fetishism.

Samuel Nugent is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Naarm. Through the utilisation of fantasy, role-play and theatricality, Nugent examines their performance of public and private self.

Gabriela Lehmann Rodriguez (aximilya) examines sexuality, visibility, identity, and the intersection of queer and otaku culture through narrative comics, painting, and illustration. Her work seeks to analyze the ways in which the sociocultural expectations of women and heteronormativity influence one’s own self-concept and behavior, confronted through visual storytelling, worldbuilding, and character creation.

Dávid Varhegyi is a London-based, Hungarian-born multi/cross/hypermedia artist and researcher exploring how digital platforms, propaganda, and post-nation mythologies shape contemporary identity. Their practice spans performance, AI, LARP, installation, and media hacking, interrogating themes from digital labor and misinformation to anime radicalization and viral warfare.

Aleksy Domke is an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary artist researching internet cultures and technological affect. Interested in the psychopolitical elements of contemporary informatics, their work critically examines the dynamics between the individual, society and authority in the Technocene.

Celeste Viv Ly is a London/NYC-based queer interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer inquiring into the symbiotic potentials between speculative mythscience, biotechnological processes, and bodily registers of dissonance and synergy.

SPILLLL is a collective of ESEA (East / South-East Asian) queer women creatives who are figuring out how to bring a salad of non-Western heritage, feminism, queerness, food politics, and marginalised communal narratives to the table. SPILLLL celebrates the dining table as a seedbed for political discussions and transnational solidarity, inviting readers to join the conversation. The latest zine in their series, “SPILLLL Vol. 3” chats up GL / BL fandom over spicy instant noodle snacks.

Graphic Design & Visual Identity by Lik-Kun Li (@supremecrazygoat)

Illustration by Yujia Wang

About Pubis Project

Pubis Project is a cultural initiative that uses publishing as a method of connection and empowerment for Chinese feminist and queer diasporic communities, founded and led by Youjia Qian.

Annually, Pubis Project explores diasporic experiences through a chosen theme, producing an annual issue of Pubis Magazine and organizing a series of related events, workshops and exhibitions. Through these efforts, Pubis Project actively seeks solidarity with feminist and queer communities in the UK and around the world.

Pubis Project 2025: Fan(Girls)dom

This year, working with guest curators Yujia Wang and Yutian Hu, Pubis Project is launching ‘Fan(Girls)dom’, a series of events exploring mediums of visual art, sound art, publication, workshop and panel discussion to connect ESEA queer feminist creatives across disciplines.

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