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Perspective Tour With Janice Li

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  • Free
  • Gallery tour
  • British Sign Language interpreted
Three visitors standing in a gallery space looking at two prominent statues. A female figure in white stone on the left and a bronze male figure to the right. Between them, hung on the far gallery wall is a photographic self-portrait by the artist, Cassils.
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).

What you’ll do

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, in-person 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 interpreted

This event will have British Sign Language interpretation.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call

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About your guide

Head and shoulders shot of a woman looking directly to camera, wearing a pink suit jacket with her brunette hair in a loose bun.

Janice Li

Janice Li is a curator at Wellcome Collection, where she has led exhibitions including 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater', 'The Cult of Beauty' and 'The Healing Pavilion'. Her practice bridges art, design, science and society, focusing on material culture, ecology and intersectionality. She has worked on exhibitions, collections and research projects internationally at the Victoria & Albert Museum, MoMu Antwerp, London Design Biennale and Milan Design Week. She teaches on the MA Design for Social Innovation & Sustainable Futures at the University of the Arts London and has lectured in the UK and the US including Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths and Columbia University.