"Bethlem's exhibitions officer, Rebecca Raybone, said the free show had evolved from the challenge the museum sector set to help social cohesion and social justice at a time when society and politics felt polarised. We thought it would be a really interesting topic to consider in terms of how that is related to mental health and mental health treatment, she said. Society can make you feel very alone sometimes, or can have the opposite effect of making you feel really part of something."
"Morning Group by the artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl, the late mother of Boris Johnson, painted when she was a patient at the Maudsley hospital, shows her horror of group therapy sessions. Three pieces by the contemporary artist Mud depict their journey from distrust to healing through therapy. Charlotte Johnson Wahl, Morning Group, 1974. Photograph: Charlotte Johnson-Wahl/Bethlem Museum of the Mind Gareth McConnell's photographs of empty rooms are all waiting to be filled and transformed by therapy sessions."
Artwork in Kindred ranges from photographs of empty community rooms and a colourful canvas crowded with caricatures to an image of a baby linked by an umbilical-like cord to a seated stranger. The show is staged at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind within a historic psychiatric hospital and examines how social bonds can comfort or isolate people. Charlotte Johnson Wahl's Morning Group depicts horror and intrusion in group therapy, while Mud's three pieces trace a journey from distrust to healing through therapy. Gareth McConnell's photos suggest spaces waiting to be transformed. The exhibition addresses social cohesion, justice, and mental health as a non-binary journey.
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