'Skin' exhibition opens at Wellcome Collection
10 June 2009
Following the success of its recent exhibitions, which have looked at mental health and at identity, Wellcome Collection returns to the human body for its summer exhibition: 'Skin', which opens today.
The multidisciplinary exhibition incorporates early medical drawings, 19th-century paintings, anatomical models and cultural artefacts juxtaposed with sculpture, photography and film works by artists including Damien Hirst, Helen Chadwick and Wim Delvoye.
'Skin' is complemented by Skin Lab, which features artistic responses to developments in plastic surgery, scar treatments and synthetic skin technologies, including two newly commissioned works by the artists Rhian Solomon and Gemma Anderson. Visitors are invited to participate in an interactive and sensory experience - experimenting with skin-flap models used in plastic surgery, trying on latex skin-suits or studying biological jewellery.
There is a programme of events running alongside the exhibition.
'Skin' is open from 10 June to 26 September 2010, at Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. Admission is free.
Image: Skin cells from the blistered area of a burn. Credit: Anne Weston, LRI, CRUK, Wellcome Images
