The Wellcome Collection Lates!!! 🎨

**Join us for art and culture; food and drinks and fun people and socialising at the Wellcome Collection Museum!! ** 🎨

We meet inside near the entrance of the Wellcome Collection at 18:00. There is only one entrance. We will confirm exactly where in the WhatsApp group or we will update here closer to the event. Else we will meet you later on in the evening and share location in the whatapp group chat. We will introduce you all to each other and mix you in with the group!!!

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The Wellcome Collection website-
https://wellcomecollection.org/

By Tube/Train
The nearest Underground stations are:
Euston Square, Euston, Warren Street. The nearest mainline stations are: Euston, St Pancras, King’s Cross

Address-

Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE

Date and Time

Thursday 6 April 2023 at 18.00–20.00

No ticket required for admission to the Lates.

All exhibitions are free-

Milk
Our major new exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in global politics, society and culture.
Featuring over 100 items, including historical objects, artworks and new commissions, this will be the first museum survey to consider the complexity of this everyday substance and how it has come to be central to our perceptions of nutrition and “good health”. It will also look at the introduction of scientific principles into farming and motherhood, and ask what the future of milk might look like.

Being Human
Being Human explores what it means to be human in the 21st century. It reflects our hopes and fears about new forms of medical knowledge, and our changing relationships with ourselves, each other and the world.
Featuring 50 artworks and objects, the gallery is divided into four sections: Genetics, Minds & Bodies, Infection, and Environmental Breakdown. Discover a refugee astronaut carrying their belongings to an unknown destination, sniff a perfumed bronze sculpture that smells of breast milk, listen to an epidemic jukebox, and watch a fast-food outlet slowly flood.

Objects in Stereo
‘Objects in Stereo’ is a new exhibition by British photographer Jim Naughten, whose work explores historic collections through a combination of stereoscopic and large-scale photography. The exhibition presents a new perspective into the practice of keeping a collection and asks what it means to keep and care for museum objects.
Naughten uses stereoscopic photography, a technique that makes two-dimensional images appear three-dimensional. Using specially created viewers, you can see the stereoscopic photographs in 3D, showing these usually unseen objects in beautiful detail.
For ‘Objects in Stereo’, Jim Naughten visited Blythe House in west London which, until its recent closure, was home to objects from the collections formed by Henry Wellcome on long-term loan to the Science Museum Group.
Naughten was one of the last artists to access the building and the collections stored there, and his images offer a glimpse of objects usually hidden from public view. His large-scale photographic views of the storerooms reveal the architecture of the building, and of museum storage itself. These images show relationships between individual objects in store, and question how these kinds of spaces might shape our encounters with them.
There are also ways to engage with the exhibition that don’t rely on seeing the 3D effect. You can look at the photographs as regular images without a viewer. Close-up images on the resource table offer detailed views.
‘Objects in Stereo’ encourages us to look closely at museum objects usually hidden from view. It reminds us of the complex relationship between seeing and understanding materials in museums’ collections.

The Healing Pavilion
‘The Healing Pavilion’ is a new art commission by British-Kenyan visual artist Grace Ndiritu. It radically reimagines what textiles and architecture can do in a museum burdened by colonial history. It is deeply connected to Ndiritu’s ongoing body of work, ‘Healing The Museum’ which she began in 2012.
The installation consists of two tapestries within a site-specific structure, inspired by Zen Buddhist temples in Japan. It is designed to re-activate the museum as a space to encounter, contemplate, ask questions, exchange, listen, share and meditate.
‘The Twin Tapestries’ are based on archival images from Wellcome Collection and the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, titled ‘Repair (1915)’ and ‘Restitution (1973)’, respectively. They ask what has changed since these photographs were taken and reveal violent pasts and hidden power dynamics at the foundation of Western museology, while reflecting attitudes and practices towards African objects in many European museum collections.
Lined with walnut panels taken from Wellcome Collection’s former ‘Medicine Man’ gallery, which closed shortly after this exhibition opened, the pavilion embodies a physical transformation of the past. Through her practice, Ndiritu asks how we might energetically and architecturally reinvent the role of contemporary museums and transform these institutional spaces.
The exhibition is accompanied by an audio walkthrough and guided meditation from the artist to immerse visitors within the sanctuary-like structure of the pavilion.

The Archive of an Unseen
Scroll through fragments of the artist’s life story, growing up black, disabled and working class in the 1980s, in this interactive artwork.
Christopher Samuel’s work addresses the imbalance of representation in medical and social archives to build a better understanding of the wider spectrum of the human experience.
Move through a digital archive of Samuel’s childhood from before his diagnosis at age seven, being registered as disabled at age 14, through to leaving high school. Layers of audio, video and photography form what he describes as an “expanded documentary” of his life. These are presented in a custom-built re-creation of a Microform reader – a viewing instrument usually operated by specialists – echoing the medical scrutiny he experienced as a child.
‘The Archive of an Unseen’ is commissioned and supported by Wellcome Collection and by Unlimited, celebrating the work of disabled artists, with funding from Arts Council England.

See you there!!! 😄