23:00
2024
Location : Medrar for Contemporary Art
Date – Time : 1-16 Dec
In my homeland, we say, ‘Those who love you will peel you a pomegranate.’ Peeling pomegranates is a time-consuming and laborious task, symbolizing love and care. Yet, it is also an act filled with grief. This video work explores the intimate act of peeling pomegranates as a bloody fruit meditatively, as well as referencing displacement and loss, which sadly feels endless in the Palestinian context. In the recent genocide in Palestine, I wonder: who will peel pomegranates for those we have lost?