Opening ceremony of the 2023-2024 academic year.
Imatge de l'exposició
'A Través de l’espill'. Obesity readings: medicine, art and society

Obesity Showing Opening

 

The exhibition collects a selection of data and scientific and historical tables, personal narratives, documents, audiovisual material and the work of contemporary artists that offer the spectator ideas for the consideration and the debate around obesity, one of the more characteristic phenomena of contemporary society. The showing will help the spectator understand the scientific discourse on which contemporary theories and approaches are drawned: the studies about the nucleotids, proteins, fats and carbohydrates; the short step between a situation of hunger and malnutrition to a situation of excess and overfeeding, the prestige of the Mediterranean diet, etc.

From December 12, 2011 to April 30, 2012

Opening Hours: From Monday to Friday, from 9am to 8pm Saturdays from 10am to 14pm

 
Schedule:
  • From 13 december 2011 to 30 april 2012. Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday at 09:00 to 20:00.
  • From 17 december 2011 to 30 april 2012. Saturday at 10:00 to 14:00.
 
 
Place

Cervero Palace – P. Cisneros, 4

 
Organized by

Institute for the History of Medicine and Science and the Vice-principal of Culture, Equality and Planning.

 

Contact m.teresa.ibanez@uv.es

 
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