Future Face, Science Museum

Future Face, Wellcome Gallery, Science Museum, London, 1 October 2004 13 February 2005; National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, July December 2005

A Wellcome Trust touring exhibition, curated by Sandra Kemp.

Creatively juxtaposing historical and contemporary material; art, science and technology, Future Face explores the physical make-up of the face and the myriad ways it has been depicted and analysed, altered and reconstructed from pre-history to the present. The exhibition juxtaposes artworks with objects, images and interactive exhibits from the fields of physiognomy, psychology, anatomy, medcine and forensic science.

Artists: Aziz + Cucher, Erica Baum, Alphonse Bertillon, Nancy Burson, Chris Cunningham, Chris Dorley-Brown, Francis Galton, Pierre Hughe and Philippe Pareno, Catheerine Ikam/Loui Fléri, Gerhard Lange, Daniel Lee, Jo Longhurst, Peter Menzel, Franz Xavier Messerschmidt, Michael Najjar, Steven Pollack, Andres Serrano, and others. The Taiwan exhibition Facing DIfference [not shown], was expanded to include works from South East Asian collections and artists.

Catalogues: Future Face: Image, Identity, Innovation, Profile Books, London, 2004, ISBN 1 86197 768 9; Interactive CD-ROM, 2004, ISBN 1 84129 053X; Future Face, National Science & Technology Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2006, ISBN 13 978-986-00-6734-7 ISBN 10:986-00-6734-1, including artist’s texts ‘What a dog might tell us’

Work exhibited, Terence, photograph on mdf, from the series, Terence, Vincent, Saffi, Iris, Shaun & Monnique.