Pomegranate (Ori Gersht)
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Pomegranate (2006) is an art video by Ori Gersht which references both Juan Cotán's seventeenth-century still life painting Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber and Harold Edgerton’s stroboscopic photograph Shooting the Apple. A high velocity bullet flies across the frame in slow motion and obliterates a suspended pomegranate, bursting it open and wheeling it slowly into the air like a smashed violated mouth spraying seeds. A peaceful image is transformed into bloodshed, and a dialogue is established between stillness and motion, peace and violence.
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