Fri 14 Nov
|The Mill Gallery
Folded Realities Exhibition Opening
Folded Realities: Where stories bend, zines speak, and imagination unfolds, a snapshot of DIY culture in motion.
Time & Location
14 Nov 2025, 18:30 – 21:00
The Mill Gallery, Grange Mills, Unit 5, The Other Studios, Cardinal House, Stanningley Rd, Swinnow, Leeds LS13 4EP, UK
About the Event
Folded Realities
14 November - 12 December 2025
Folded Realities unfolds a vibrant world where stories take shape through ink, paper, and imagination. Presented by Aire Place Studios in collaboration with Zineophelia, the exhibition brings together artists working across zines, comics, illustration, and print to explore how images can twist, stretch, and fold our sense of what’s real.
Zines are an impermanent medium, made to be shared, passed on, and remade. To complete their full definition, they must be disseminated; they are not just publications but acts of communication. The culture comes first, and zines follow. Folded Realities is a snapshot of that culture: zines frozen in time, communicating live en masse. This exhibition becomes a kind of time capsule, a report on where zine culture stands right now, where it has come from, and where it’s heading next.
From hand-drawn narratives and experimental sequences to bold, graphic storytelling, each piece invites viewers…