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Sigune Hamann: Wave

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An installation in the foyer and windows by German artist Sigune Hamann. Featuring still and moving images of waving figures - capturing moments of joy, friendship, heartbreak and curiosity -the installation is a constantly evolving montage. Hamann's interest in the range of meanings and feelings a wave can suggest was inspired, in part, by the artist coming across a collection of 1950s photographs of Berliners waving to relatives across the newly-erected Berlin Wall, a practice soon declared illegal by the East German authorities. Images shown include footage of British soldiers leaving a French harbour during WWI, a figure afloat on debris in the aftermath of the Japanese tsunami in 2011 and hands emerging through train windows, recording the goodbyes of children evacuated from cities during the Blitz.

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Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE

Wellcome Collection

Founder Sir Henry Wellcome, a pioneering 19th-century pharmacist and entrepreneur, amassed a vast and idiosyncratic collection of implements and...

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Transport Euston/Euston Square 

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020 7611 2222

http://www.wellcomecollection.org

Galleries: 10am-6pm Tue-Sat, until 10pm Thur, 11am-6pm Sun (closed Mon except bank hols). Library: 10am-6pm Mon-Sat, 10am-8pm Thur, 10am-4pm Sat

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