Ori Gersht - Pomegranate

Ori Gersht - Pomegranate, 2006, produced 2007
video, color, sound, running time: 3:52 min

Referencing a still life by 16th century Spanish artist Juan Sánchez Cotán, Ori Gersht’s eerie and painterly video features a ripe pomegranate dangling from a string and framed with other freshly harvested produce in a window. In slow motion a bullet slices through the fruit—a food symbolic of Bible, Jewish law, and Near Eastern culture—spraying blood-red seeds and flesh in the air (NY Jewish Museum).

Juan Sánchez Cotán - Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber, 1602
San Diego Museum of Art

(Hirshhorn Museum)

(Contemporary Art)

(Filmofilia)