As we fight day to day against bacteria, The Wellcome Collection invites all lovers of hand sanitizer to Dirt, its new exhibition where our complex relation with dirt is explained throughout 5 different locations and times (The Streets in Soho 1854, an Hopital in Glasgow 1867, the museum at Dresden 1930 , the community in New Delhi 2011, The biggest landfill site, Fresh Kills, in 2030).
The exhibition also presents contemporary artists like Serena Korda who makes bricks with the dust she collect from donators and Santiago Sierra’s massive modules made with human faeces.
Even if I expected it to be more disgusting, I enjoyed the vintages amputations pictures (I particularly loved to search in the medical dictionary of my granny when I was little). There is so much to say about dirt, it seems that the exhibition focus on the sanitary history of London and its cholera epidemic in the times the Thame’s waters were called “monster soup”. Therefore, I learned that this incredible diarrhea and vomiting attack that we call cholera was killing you after couple of hours only. A sample of this original “rice milk” that came out of infected people was probably the most scary artifact of the exhibit.
But after all, Dirt isn’t too much repellent and even, the earliest sketches of bacteria could be similar to a pattern founded on the new Marc Jacobs ‘s Dress. It’s finishing at the end of august but have a look; it worth it and it’s free!
Also, The Wellcome Collection planned many events surrounding “dirt” for kids and adults. The café can be fun for lunchtime and it’s located in a good-looking open space with excellent healthy food. You can enjoy a hot meal and go shopping in the boutique where you can find interesting books and funny things. (it’s 5 minutes walk from St Lukes)
It’s not rubbish!
Also see:
Dirt car art in london! (Ok...)
and the The Flickr Group ( Where you can upload photos of dirt in your everyday life)
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