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UK - London - Bloomsbury: British Museum - Disease, War, Famine and Death
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Disease, War, Famine and Death
From The Atomic Apolaypse by the Linares family
Mexico City, Mexico, 1983
The Mexican Day of the Dead
These figures depict the four horseman of the Apocalypse--Disease, War, Famine and Death--described in the passages of the Bible that predict the end of the world. These are great troubles that all nations suffer. This exhibition discusses some of the ways in which people around the world manage their lives, and the lives of their communities, to prevent and cope with large- and small-scale misfortunes.
The figures were made by the Linares family, working in the Mexican Day of the Dead tradition. This celebrtation of All Saints' and All Souls'Days at the beginning of November commemorates the dead in an elaborate festival. Printed images, paper stencils, and papier-mache figures are all used to depict death during the festival.
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This sculpture is part of the the Living and Dying exhibit in the The Wellcome Trust Gallery of the British Museum. The Wellcome Trust Gallery offers a fresh perspective on the collections of the British Museum. It houses a series of long term exhibitions each with a focus on life's challenges as they the human race - from any cultural background. Living and dying is the first of these. It looks at how people around the world deal with the tough realities of life, averting or confronting trouble, sorrow, need and sickness. What we find is not an unremittingly solemn response, still less a single strategy for dealing with such realities. The understanding of causes and symptoms, the ways we find of coping, and the objects we make in the process, are creative and inspiring.
Diseased Door
Image by judsond
This is the door decorated by infectious diseases
Disease?
Image by armigeress
Prettiest leaf-disease I've seen.
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