Imagine Exhibition — John Lennon & Yoko Ono Quote Wall

9 October 2019

The word fills the wall before anything else registers. This is the entrance panel of the Imagine exhibition, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1971 lyric — "Imagine all the people / Living life in peace" — is set against white curved walls and industrial ceiling rafters above. A framed photograph of Lennon and Ono anchors the lower left, pulling the lyric back to the people who wrote it. The exhibition design earns the word: big enough to mean something, spare enough to leave room for the visitor to bring their own weight to it.