WET GODDESS: Recollections of a Dolphin Lover
Kiik Amor
23.05.2026–04.07.2026

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Slugtown are pleased to present WET GODDESS: RECOLLECTIONS OF A DOLPHIN LOVER, a solo exhibition from Newcastle-based artist Kiik Amor. The exhibition is framed within a performance architecture and featuring a film work, explores transformation, interspecies longing, and the desire to become other. 

Loosely inspired by the controversial novel Wet Goddess by Malcolm J. Brenner, the show departs from its source material, choosing to instead focus on metaphysical connection, rather than sensationalism. Amor reframes the story as one of devotion and misalignment; the central protagonist in this exhibition being a figure who, after encountering a profound mode of communication beyond the human, becomes estranged from their own body, world, and skin. Consequently beginning a process of self-engineering cyborg prosthetics in order to become partially dolphin. 

The work follows the figure’s gradual shift towards self-reconstruction. Through wearable prosthetics, sculptural body extensions, and aquatic morphologies, they attempt to reconfigure themselves into a form capable of existing within another species’ sensory and emotional field. The dolphin is not treated as object or spectacle, but as a structural elsewhere – a body organised by different logics: fluid, non-verbal, and resistant to fixed Identity.

Blurring the boundaries between costume, erotica, fetish, and survival mechanism, WET GODDESS draws parallels with subcultural practices of embodiment, including furry and fetish communities, where the body becomes a site of transformation, projection, and world-building. Here, however, transformation is not role-play but a sustained and unresolved pursuit: a lifelong attempt to align with something fundamentally out of reach. The accompanying film presents an intimate portrait of this process – tracing moments of isolation, fabrication, and partial becoming. Materials stretch, bind, and reform; the body is repeatedly tested against its limits. What emerges is not a completed transformation, but an ongoing condition of yearning.

The transformation is never complete. They continue to build, adjust, and return to the water – testing a body that still does not belong, but is no longer entirely human. WET GODDESS.

Kiik Amor will also show a solo presentation at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ for London Gallery Weekend.

Kiik Amor is a non-binary artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. They work across the fields of experimental design, performance and sonic art, with a practice based in world-building for alter-experience. They create speculative, immersive worlds that present queer/trans sonic narratives through multidisciplinary performance architectures. 

Recent exhibitions and performances include: Alt_r Immersive Screen Space, Gossamer Fog, Enclave Projects, London, UK; North East Emerging Artist Award, Seaton Delaval Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; Exo-moaner’s Guide to Interplanetary Pleasure: Sex Education for Space, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK; Spatial Sound Performance, LAKE Gallery Deptford, London, UK; HYPA-PHIXED, invitro Curator In Residence Programme, Gossamer Fog, London, UK; BUTTER PYRAMID, Kupfer Gallery.

They have been awarded the North East Emerging Artist Award, Seaton Delaval Hall, Tyne and Wear, UK; and the Sonic Emerging Artist Award, The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough, UK. Amor has undertaken residencies at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia; BALTIC, Gateshead, UK; LaValleé Space, Brussels, Belgium; and Koumaria Medea Electronique, Sellasia, Greece.