Migration & Mirrors
Exhibition
Exhibition
Bringing together 19 artists who have a history of migration, this is a powerful exhibition beginning with a neon artwork by Elsa James over the entrance to the main gallery, exclaiming 'I am here because you were there'. It's a fantastic collection of artists including Phoebe Boswell's underwater paintings and an impressive spiritual mirrored installation by Victor Ehikhamenor, where Amazing Grace in Edo reverberates around the space.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Milk may seem like a strange topic for an exhibition, but Wellcome Collection does an excellent job with charting the history of it, including how formula was originally directed to poorer communities, with pasteurised initially only available to the middle classes. It also looks at how Neo-Nazis have used milk as a symbol of white supremacy, plus Danielle Dean's political artwork showing a landscape turning white draws attention to how natural fauna was wiped out to make new land for the milk industry in New Zealand. It ends spectacularly with Jess Dobkin's intense installation on how human breastmilk is now sold, how it's fetishised and used by bodybuilders.