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Dorit Bialer - Biography
Berlin based artist and graphic designer from Israel. Born in Tel-Aviv, 1982 and from a young age
established herself as a political and social activist. In 2009 Dorit graduated from ‘Bezalel’ the
Jerusalem art and design academy majoring in visual communication.
After graduating, Dorit travelled to Berlin, and been living here ever since.
Participated in single and group exhibitions, her objects are dealing with social issues, mostly
combining visual aesthetics from childhood and adulthood. She ‘seduces’ the viewers by creating
playful and colourful objects, that in a second look, reveal a disturbing truth.
For her, design and art are not quit separable, using both to create a cohesive and communicative
story. She is currently a freelance designer for various projects.
Online portfolio at: http://thedorit.carbonmade.com/
DAS PRINZESSIN PROJECT
It is no secret that most of the child hood fairy-tales we have grown on are ‘poisoned’ with
anachronistic ideals and ideas of the women place in modern society. The story is similar,
the ending is known - the women’s destiny is to get in some sort of distress and the male’s nature is
to save her. The feminine characters in fairy tales would mostly appear in two main forms -
the first are vulnerable and somewhat simple minded ladies in distress the other is a lonely
unmarried witch. Silently but firmly the brothers grim’s stories are taking a social stand by describing
the woman figure as some sort of social victim, who doesn’t know any better than to sacrifice herself
for the social good.
But we don’t need to go far as the Brothers Grim time, Walt Disney has taken these anachronistic
ideas and revived them as the classics that every child in the western world is being exposed to.
It seems as the princesses are victims by choice:
The little mermaid would give up her voice, home and family for an arrogant stranger she had
spotted on a ship. The sleeping beauty is being approached to by a stranger who was spying on her
and Submissively gives herself to him. Snow white is being kissed while she is dead, and Cinderella
has to camouflage herself in order to receive any interest from men.
But ultimately the most undoubtable extreme of them all is Bell, the beauty who fell for the beast.
He kidnapped her father, locked her in his tower, terrorise, threatens and emotionally abuses her,
But a lot like other battered women, Bell stays with him and ‘changes’ him, by accepting his abusive
behaviour and defending him with no question asked. This sort of behaviour is pumped into
toddlers within the current millennium, and the colourful, musical package these messages are sent
in, makes them so easy to swallow.
DAS PRINZESSIN PROJECT is a series of educational embroidery pieces which are functioning as text
books for the future princess. A lot like our fairy tales, at first they seem harmless and familiar,
but after a close look reveal their real intention, which is carefully sown by the young princess to be.
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