From Icarus to i-limbs, Wellcome Collection’s major summer exhibition, Superhuman, explores the extraordinary ways people have sought to improve, adapt and enhance their body’s performance. Coinciding with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, Superhuman brings together over 100 artworks, artefacts, videos, photographs, comics and medical objects which record our seemingly limitless desire to be more than ourselves. From an ancient Egyptian prosthetic toe to the superheroes of sci-fi imagination and the futuristic promises of nano- and biotechnology, the exhibition takes a long view of physical and chemical enhancement and explores the science, myths and cultural reception of body extension.
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