Image: Wellcome Collection / Steven Pocock, 2024
Image: Wellcome Collection / Steven Pocock, 2024
‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection, London
19 September 2024 – 27 April 2025
19 September 2024 – 27 April 2025
The exhibition explorres experiences of physical work and its impacts on health and the body. Making connections between undervalued labour, the people who do it, and the spaces where it happens, this exhibition brings in to focus the people whose health, work and rights remain hidden on the margins of society.
‘Hard Graft’ will centre on three places of work: The Plantation, The Street and The Home. Each a distinct location for often hard, physical labour, where conditions may be precarious or unsafe, and workers have little or no access to healthcare, a stable income, or basic rights.
Contemporary artworks by artists on display include: Turner prize-winner Lubaina Himid, Adelita Husni Bey, Charmaine Watkiss, Vivian Caccuri, Forensic Architecture, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Shannon Alonzo, Daniela Ortiz and with new commissions by Lindsey Mendick and Moi Tran.
Curated by Cindy Sissokho