My Right Shoulder | Solimar at Artcetera Studio, Belfast

27/10/2018 – 07/11/2018 – All Day
Artcetera Studio Belfast, 43b Rosemary Street, Belfast
Exhibition Opening: Saturday 27 October, 7-10pm. The concept behind Solimar’s forthcoming exhibition, ‘My Right Shoulder’ (Meu Ombro Direito) is rooted in her longstanding battles with her body, which have inspired her art and impeded her capacity to produce art. After decades of chronic pain, treatments and surgeries, she’s exploring the significance of joints, particularly of shoulders. Solimar unveils her shoulder and, relying on her background in linguistics, surveys the ‘shoulder’: its roots, forms, translations, figurative meaning. Shoulder, ombro, scapula, omos (English, Portuguese, Latin, Greek) denote the same body part, but they are similar in their connotation too: a place of…
My Right Shoulder | Solimar at Artcetera Studio, Belfast