Solo at Rothschild
Dor Bar Shlomo | Rude Awakening
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Solo at Rothschild

A space for solo exhibitions created especially for members of the Edmond de Rothschild Center network.
Its purpose is to foster the creation of new projects and facilitate the production of existing works, providing curatorial support and collaborative thinking and development processes.
Every year, three solo exhibitions of network members will be selected.

Determinism:
Three solo exhibitions at the Edmond de Rothschild Center, Floor -1.

12.6-25.8.23
Participants: Yuval Naor, Daniel Nahum, and Dor Bar Shlomo
Curators: Adi Yaniv, Moran Sulmirski Noam, and Rotem Kaplan

The three artists whose works are presented in the trilogy’s three exhibitions chose to engage in an investigation and observation of the concept of “determinism” (a philosophical view according to which every event, action, decision, or human thought in the world is exclusively determined by previous events).

Third Exhibition

Dor Bar Shlomo | Rude Awakening

Curator: Rotem Kaplan

All humans were born, some after dramatic birth pangs, others less so. However, despite the fact we do not remember our birth, we all carry traces and clues from the event. In the exhibition “Rude Awakening”, Dor Bar Shlomo connects the moments of his own birth, which he recreates from his imagination and stories, and his life in the present. With the eyes of a mature person, he observes his complex birth experience, which was a vacuum-assisted delivery birth, at the end of which he met the world for the first time.
In the exhibition, Dor presents animation, print, and collage works, which combine medical drawings from anatomy books, cold and blue babies’ heads that orphan the baby and disconnect it from its human existence, and images of a life-giving womb. These contrasts give rise to questions about the means of modern medicine, which distance natural childbirth and turn it into a mechanical and technological procedure. The awakening moment at the exhibition is a refuge, somewhere to reassemble the birth memories daily, a place that enables making new decisions and examining the previous ones.