Psychoanalysis
dal 12/10/2010 al 14/4/2011
Segnalato da
Grayson Perry
Arnold Dreyblatt
Mona Hatoum
Joseph Kosuth
Grayson Perry
Tim Noble
Sue Webster
Carlo Zanni
Sonny Sanja Vadagma
Kristian de la Riva
Amelie von Harrach
Damian de la Sueur
Caterina Albano
12/10/2010
Psychoanalysis
Science Museum, London
The Unconscious in Everyday Life. The exhibition celebrates the contribution of psychoanalysis to the understanding of the mind and culture. It aims to explore the broad contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. The exhibition will focus on a key concept of psychoanalysis - how the unconscious can be interpreted through everyday experiences and in artefacts, both historical and contemporary.
curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
The Science Museum will explore the workings of the unconscious mind with a new exhibition, Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life – which opens on 13 October and runs until April 2011.
The exhibition celebrates the contribution of psychoanalysis to the understanding of the mind and culture. It aims to explore the broad contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. The exhibition will focus on a key concept of psychoanalysis – how the unconscious can be interpreted through everyday experiences and in artefacts, both historical and contemporary.
The visitor will experience the subject of psychoanalysis through a range of modern and historical objects, contemporary artworks, digital animation and audio interpretation of key exhibits by psychoanalysts.
Highlights include artworks by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Noble & Webster which take inspiration from psychoanalytical ideas. The exhibition will also feature artworks that have been specially created for the exhibition in collaboration with leading psychoanalysts.
The exhibition will feature a wealth of artefacts from collections at the Science Museum, Wellcome library, and Freud Museum. Notable objects include a cabinet containing ancient statuettes from Greece and an Egyptian death mask. Visitors will also see a selection of children’s drawings from the Melanie Klein Archive, which have never been on public display before.
Other items will include a selection of body casts of masks, feet, eyes and phalluses which will be brought out of the Science Museum’s storage rooms for the exhibition.
The exhibition features a wealth of artefacts from the Science Museum Collections, the Freud Museum, the Melaine Klein and Winnicott Archives, alongside everyday objects and contemporary artworks by artists Arnold Dreyblatt, Mona Hatoum, Joseph Kosuth, Grayson Perry,Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Carlo Zanni, Sonny Sanja Vadagma, Kristian de la Riva, Amelie von Harrach and Damian de la Sueur.
The exhibition also features specially commissioned audios by leading psychoanalysts and it is complemented by e-catalogue.
The exhibition is supported by the Institute of Psychoanalysis and is curated by Dr Caterina Albano, Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
2010 marks the centenary of the foundation of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Visitor Information
For further information contact Laura Singleton, Press Officer, Science Museum. Tel: 0207 942 4364 or e-mail: laura.singleton@sciencemuseum.org.uk.
Opening 13 October 2010
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