Between: Embodiment & Identity

A new exhibition that explores how personal identity has become embodied in a powerful landscape of anatomical imagery is opening at the Inigo Rooms, a new space within Somerset House designed to foster innovative forms of engagement between King's College London, the cultural sector and the public.The ancient philosophical tension between what we are and how we think, between human embodiment and identity, is being radically ramped-up and redefined by advances in anatomical knowledge and the brain sciences. At the same time, visual imaging techniques make this new knowledge visible and explicit, conferring huge explanatory power onto digitized medical imagery.How do we define the ‘self’ in an age of increasing materiality? The philosophical tensions between what we are and how we think, between human embodiment and identity, is being radically redefined by advances in anatomical knowledge. At the same time, visual imaging techniques make this knew knowledge visible, conferring ...