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MUSEUM OF MAKING
From the wonder of Joseph Wright to our fantastic porcelain, military, natural history and world collections, there’s something new to discover that will arouse your curiosity and inspire your imagination every time you visit the Museum and Art Gallery. Here is a taster of some of the exhibitions and events we have coming up…
Please visit our website for details about the many other activities we have coming up: derbymuseums.org/whats-on. A British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: community and refuge
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Until 6 March 2022 Museum and Art Gallery FREE – Give What You Think
A British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: community and refuge will tour the Lampedusa cross around the UK for the first time. Made from the remnants of a boat carrying refugees wrecked near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast of Tunisia, the cross carries poignant messages about kindness, community and the indifference faced by many refugees. Alongside the cross will be a display of 12 tiny boats from Syrian-born Issam Kourbaj's series, Dark Water, Burning World, made from repurposed bicycle mudguards tightly packed with burnt matches to represent the fragile vessels used by refugees to make their perilous voyages across the Mediterranean. Seeking to evoke the plight of Syrians, these were made by Kourbaj as a response to the ongoing tragedy in Syria. Supported by the Dorset Foundation in memory of Harry M Weinrebe. Suitable for all.
Image opposite: The Lampedusa cross, Francesco Tuccio, 2015, wood © The Trustees of the British Museum Image this page: Dark Water, Burning World, Issam Kourbaj, 2016, Images: All the Year Round © Quentin Blake repurposed bicycle steel mudguards, extinguished matches and clear resin © Trustees of the British Museum. Reproduced by permission of artist.
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Claude Cahun: Beneath this Mask
Until 27 February 2022 Museum and Art Gallery FREE – Give What You Think
This Hayward Touring exhibition features the work of French female photographer Claude Cahun (1894–1954), whose practice investigates gender and identity. Cahun achieved posthumous fame for her elusive self-portraits in which she assumed multiple personae.
The exhibition contains 42 contemporary giclée prints made from scans of Cahun’s original photographic self-portraits, as the majority of the negatives have been lost. Born Lucy Schwob, she adopted the pseudonym in 1917 to free herself from the narrow confines of gender. At the beginning of her career she was aligned to the Surrealist movement and was friends with André Breton; however she distanced herself both politically and physically after fleeing France on the eve of Nazi occupation. Cahun settled in Jersey where she embarked upon her defining photographic series, in which the subversion of traditional portraiture and the constructed nature of identity and gender are pressing concerns. In these now famous images, Cahun anticipated the performative work of contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman. This Hayward Touring exhibition is in collaboration with Jersey Heritage and was first presented at the Women of the World Festival 2015, Southbank Centre.
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Image: Claude Cahun, Self Portrait, 1928. Courtesy and copyright Jersey Heritage For online activities, don’t forget to visit our microsite at: derbymuseumsfromhome.com.