Science Museum announces new art commissions for ‘Who am I?’ gallery
(NewDesignWorld Press Release Center) -- New works by artists Dryden Goodwin and Revital Cohen are to feature in the Science Museum’s updated ‘Who am I?’ gallery when it reopens in June 2010.
Currently one of the most popular galleries in the Science Museum, ‘Who am I?’ presents brain science and genetics through a mixture of interactive exhibits, the latest scientific research, museum artefacts and exclusive art works. Goodwin and Cohen will be joining Antony Gormley, Angus Fairhurst and other internationally renowned contemporary artists who’s artworks were commissioned and purchased for the original ‘Who am I?’ gallery. The new works will be unveiled at the relaunch of ‘Who am I?’ next June coinciding with the end of the Science Museum’s year long Centenary celebrations.
Hannah Redler, Head of Science Museum Arts Projects, said:
“For this year's commissions we concentrated on finding artists whose methods of investigation and research are comparable to those used in science albeit to markedly different ends. Goodwin’s startling installation in a case about brain imaging will present images which suggest a sense of mystery and the unknowable, set amongst scientific instruments and methods which purport to tell us how our brains work. Cohen will be producing a series of ‘critical objects’ for a case about mapping the genome which will have imagined functions relating to genetic legacy. It will be left up to our audiences to decide whether they think the futures her objects propose are mythical or probable.”
Multimedia artist Dryden Goodwin’s work is interested in the notion that drawing can be an attempt to discover knowledge on many different levels, about people. This is evident in the way he uses drawing and lens-based media to ‘map’ individuals. Goodwin is influenced by the belief that there is a potential rich dialogue between artists and scientists. He is interested in the questions, desires, methodologies, ethical issues and hoped for revelations these dialogues may generate to explore and understand what it is to be human.
Recent RCA graduate Revital Cohen uses design as a means to engage in and establish critical discourses. Her work spans across various media and has included collaborations with scientists, bioethicists, animal breeders and the NHS. Cohen’s critical objects and provocative scenarios suggest debatable interactions relating to life sciences. She believes that by being familiar yet speculative, experimental design can engage and challenge people’s understanding of science. Cohen’s ‘Life Support’ project was previously exhibited at the Design Museum, London, as part of the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2009.
‘Who am I?’ remains open until early January and is free to visit. The revamped gallery will open in June 2010.
‘Who am I?’ is supported by Principal Funder: Wellcome Trust, Major Sponsors: GlaxoSmithKline and Life Technologies Foundation.
For further information please contact Andrew Marcus, Science Museum Press Office on andrew.marcus@sciencemuseum.org.uk or 020 7942 4357.
Discuss Bury
NDW PR Center is a Web 2.0 News release and distribution service
