Bodies at Southmead Hospital
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Feb. 28th - July 31st 2017 |
Exhibition statement:
Our bodies have fascinated humans throughout the ages. Doctors, philosophers, psychiatrists, clerics, scientists, artists and others have tried to understand them in their diversity; their outer form and inner workings, in sickness and in health, their strengths and vulnerabilities, youthfulness and aging, issues of identity, sex and sexuality, the troubled mind, body image, life and death….
Curated by Lou Baker and Soraya Schofield
Our bodies have fascinated humans throughout the ages. Doctors, philosophers, psychiatrists, clerics, scientists, artists and others have tried to understand them in their diversity; their outer form and inner workings, in sickness and in health, their strengths and vulnerabilities, youthfulness and aging, issues of identity, sex and sexuality, the troubled mind, body image, life and death….
Curated by Lou Baker and Soraya Schofield