The pomegranate is a fruit of life, death, and rebirth. It can take the shape of a golden necklace hidden in a grandmother’s bra during the aftermath of the 1979 revolution in Iran. Or it can be peeled and offered by another woman to her migrant granddaughter. In the performance The Taste of Pomegranate, participants are invited to peel and deseed pomegranates on top of a pomegranate-illustrated tablecloth with printed stories of myths and migration about this precious fruit, spanning from Cyprus to an airport in Tehran, en route to Scandinavia. With sticky hands, and red stains of pomegranates spread across the tablecloth, the seeds of stories pass through the bodies of different people and transform into entities that reach further and wider—leaving a trace of history.

In collaboration with artist Iliada Charalambous.