Flowers — Flora In Contemporary Art & Culture, an exhibition at the Museum of London that opens on 12 February and runs until 5 May, brings together 500 works. These works demonstrate the enduring influence of flowers on art, design, fashion, music, literature and science across time.
The exhibition will be divided into nine thematic zones, and the genres of the exhibits range from painting and photography to large-scale immersive installations and archival objects. The concept of the project is based on flora as a set of symbols, metaphors and emotional designations deeply rooted in myths, stories and cultural traditions of different countries. Viewers will see an installation by Rebecca Louise Lowe consisting of 100,000 pressed flowers, as well as works by artists such as Damien Hirst, Inka Ilori and Takashi Murakami.