Artist in Iran
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 26 Mar
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And on the top is a skull with bright green eyes.
Charles Darwin used to call this his walking maturi or memento mori, meaning it was a reminder that one day we all must die.
This walking stick is next to a contemporary artwork by an artist called Daphne Wright.
And it's of a Zimmer frame.
And the Zimmer frame is actually kind of paired all the way back to its core and covered with unflagged clay, so it looks incredibly vulnerable.
I just thought it was really interesting that in the 19th century, Charles Darwin's walking stick was like a symbol of erudition, whereas a Zimmer frame today is not seen in the same way.
So we're looking at a very unusual artwork here.
So this is a ceramic series called Wild Apples by the artist Serena Korda.
So we're walking into a circular space and all around are scattered apples.
And in and amongst the apples there are three roughly hewn kind of tree trunks that on top of which are three ceramic figures.
All women.
All women, yes.
So Serena really was looking at experiences of menopause.
Serena was very interested in a type of object that we have in our collection here at Wellcome called the anatomical venuses, which were the 16th century teaching tools that were used to teach men about women's bodies.
And so Serena was really turning that medicalised male gaze on its head.
And her figures are standing up and they are bearing menopause.
the lived experiences of their bodies.
That's right.
So we're looking at a display of objects from the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders, which is a social enterprise in Japan...
where all of the floor staff of this restaurant have dementia.
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