“In every time period and every culture, there is this obsession and emphasis on beauty. There’s always a strong opinion on beauty, and that’s what fascinated me in the very beginning,” says Janice Li, curator at the Wellcome Trust and RCA graduate, describing her starting point when it came to curating The Cult of Beauty exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London.
The show explores notions of beauty across time and cultures, and features more than 200 objects and artworks, such as 19th-century black silk beauty spots and a 1950s buckled maternity corset.
