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Why Are We Stuck In Hospital? at Site Gallery
Exhibition
Why Are We Stuck In Hospital?
21 Mar 2024 – 7 Apr 2024
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 1 Brown Street
- Sheffield
- S1 2BS
- United Kingdom
An impossible maze with no end forms the basis of a gallery installation and inner-city billboard campaign by artist and activist Foka Wolf.
About
Foka Wolf’s installation Why Are We Stuck in Hospital?, produced by Ikon, illustrates the invisibility of people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people in long-stay hospitals.
Comprising graphic design and declarative captions, Birmingham artist Foka Wolf’s posters respond to Why Are We Stuck In Hospital?, a research project conducted by the School of Social Policy at University of Birmingham, in partnership with rights-based organisation Changing Our Lives. The research raises awareness of the 2000 people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people who live in hospital settings for long periods of time, often for many years and with no planned date to leave.
Foka Wolf’s artwork is also displayed on Jack Arts billboards around Sheffield.
