Electricity: The spark of life

Wellcome Collection, London

February 2017 – June 2017

This was a large-scale and complex exhibition made in partnership between Wellcome Collection, London, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, and Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. It featured contemporary art commissions by John Gerrard, Bill Morrison and Camille Henrot responding to three historical collections, an audio commission exploring the future of our relationship with electricity, and over 100 objects. Examples of the exhibition interpretation can be found here.

The exhibition was featured in:

Front Row (BBC Radio 4)

Vanity Fair

The Telegraph

A male visitor stands in silhouette in front of a large screen. The screen shows a frog suspended in space and what looks like a gloved human hand beneath it. — *X. laevis (Spacelab) 2017,* John Gerrard. Commissioned by Wellcome Collection for Electricity: The spark of life. Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection

An exhibition display case containing an open book with an illustration of 19th century electrical apparatus. Next to the open book is an electrostatic discharger. — Installation view.. Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection

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