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@AmazingMeagen@historians.social
2025-06-22 11:05:12

It would be very interesting to see the RAMS and risk assessment for installing the Butts exhibition at the #WhitechapelGallery.
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Exhibition installation caption.

Familiars: Cradle, 1992
Glass, steel, chlorine, water
2015

Cradle resembles a 'Newton's cradle' and is made up of 28 vacuum-sealed glass spheres filled with lethal yellow-green chlorine gas. If one sphere collides with the next, the breaking of the glass spheres would release the chlorine gas - a respiratory irritant - into the air. Provocatively, Butt likened Cradle to a 'domestic bomb,' suggesting that he appreciated it's potential destructive power.
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White walled gallery. Three sets of six glass spheres suspended from the ceiling all containing a yellowish substance.