Opening Reception for MSCHF: King Solomon's Baby

Join Pioneer Works for a public opening celebration of MSCHF: King Solomon’s Baby.

With King Solomon’s Baby (2025), MSCHF literally hack their way through a famous parable, reimagining the moment made iconic by countless Renaissance depictions: King Solomon’s decree to split a baby in half to settle a dispute between two women claiming to be the mother. When one pleads to rescind her claim in order to save the child, Solomon identifies her as the true mother and awards her custody, recognizing her selflessness.

In MSCHF’s version, they are the court jester, turning a solemn tale into a spectacle. MSCHF will stage a 15-foot-long sculpture, carved to resemble a larger-than-life baby. Fractions of this work will be sold to online buyers, after which the collective will use a hot wire jig to slice the baby apart. The more buyers, the more elaborate the performance: a two-day-long event in which the room-sized baby is cut into anywhere between 2 and 1000 slices. This process will be livestreamed on MSCHF’s website, and will culminate in a viewing of the fully deconstructed sculpture during Second Sundays on July 13.

About the Artist

MSCHF is a Brooklyn-based conceptual collective developing elaborate interventions that expose and leverage the absurdity of our cultural, political, and monetary systems. MSCHF provokes widespread public response as a means of performance, directly within the environments it critiques. Ultimately, the collective itself represents an intricate subversion of corporate structure, that seeks to challenge every sphere with which it comes into contact.