FUTURE FACE EXHIBITION LAUNCHED

29 September 2004

A major new Wellcome Trust exhibition opened at the Science Museum on 1 October 2004. Curated by Sandra Kemp, Director of Research at the Royal College of Art, the exhibition integrates art, science, history and medicine to explore:

• the links between the face and identity,
• modification and reconstruction of the face for medical or cosmetic reasons,
• the endless search to categorise facial features,
• faces in the virtual world,
• what the face of the future might look like.

With over 200 historical and contemporary photographs, paintings, multimedia installations and objects, the show presents a rich mix of material from anatomy, portraiture, forensics, medicine and popular culture from pre-history to the present day.

Over the duration of the exhibition a series of special events have been organised including discussions and debates, film screenings and a fascinating multi-disciplinary symposium on the facial representations of death.

A book and CD-ROM have been produced to accompany this, the finalexhibition in the current series at the Medicine in Context Gallery. Admission is free and the exhibition runs until 13 February 2005.