Perspective Tour With Janice Li
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Past
- Free
- Gallery tour
- British Sign Language
Central photographic artwork, Advertisement: Homage to Benglis, 2011, Cassils. © Cassils. Statues, Equiline Venus and Idolino. Courtesy of the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge. Gallery Photo: Benjamin Gilbert. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Join curator Janice Li for a tour of ‘The Cult of Beauty’. Janice will outline how the exhibition came together, and highlight and discuss some of its objects and themes.
Featuring historical objects, artworks, films and new commissions, ‘The Cult of Beauty’ considers the influence of morality, status, health, age, race and gender on the evolution of ideas about beauty.
The exhibition includes nudity, racist and misogynist materials. It features some sensory elements, including scent and sound.
Dates
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Past
Need to know
Location
We’ll meet at the Information Point, which is on level 0, directly in front of you as you enter Wellcome Collection.
Place not guaranteed
Booking a ticket for a free event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.
British Sign Language
This event will have British Sign Language interpretation.
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About your guide
Janice Li
Janice Li is a curator at Wellcome Collection, and curator of the exhibition ‘The Cult of Beauty’. She has curated exhibitions and commissioned design projects internationally and is a founding member of the Hong Kong Design History Network. She co-curated the Hong Kong Pavilion, ‘Sandtable’, at the London Design Biennale 2021. Janice speaks and lectures regularly on curatorial, research and sustainable design practices and is currently an associate lecturer on the MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures at the London College of Communications.