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Brush Hook
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Comrade Workers
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Don't Overload
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Methanol
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Underloaded.
Exhibition
Health and Safety Posters from the Jupiter Factory Complex, Chernobyl
11 Aug 2023 – 14 Aug 2023
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 26 Phipp Street
- London
England - EC2A 4NR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Old Street (Northern line), Shoreditch High Street station (London Overground), Moorgate and Liverpool Street station a 15-minute walk away (providing further access to Northern, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City Lines, as well as national rail services)
Photographs taken showing Soviet health and safety posters in Pripyat, the town abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.
About
The Jupiter Factory complex lies on the outskirts of Pripyat, the city evacuated in 1986 as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. A series of large multi-storied buildings make up the area which, like most of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, has been abandoned and left to the elements. Within these buildings, the remains of industry have succumbed to time. Yet remnants of the health and safety posters, designed to instruct, advise, and warn about safe working practices, remain.
The design and the intended messages of these posters is often obscure, bordering on abstract. Some are clearer. Some take on a playful tone – a cartoon rendering of somebody slipping on water. Others convey more sinister information, bearing atomic symbols and gas masks, foreshadowing what would eventually happen in a way that nobody could have foreseen. They are surrounded by broken rusted machines, smashed windows, obfuscated activities.
