The pomegranate is a fruit of life, death, and rebirth. 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.

Iliada Charalambous, born in 1993 in Cyprus, is a visual artist who delves into the possibilities and limitations of democratic assemblies and how art as politics, through its play with form, fiction/reality, and the use of the performative, can contribute to radical democracy. She lives in the Netherlands and works across the Netherlands and Cyprus.

Afrang Nordlöf Malekian, born in 1995 (Iran/Sweden), is an artist based in Berlin and Stockholm. He works with history’s silenced makers and, through performances and installations grounded in archival research, explores how their unrealised utopias transform into a flexible force that advances collective endeavours. He has exhibited at venues such as the 10th Berlin Biennale, Sophiensaele, and Moderna Museet.

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Granatno jabolko je sadež življenja, smrti in ponovnega rojstva. V performansu Okus granatnega jabolka je javnost povabljena, da olupi granatna jabolka, odstrani njihova semena na prt, na katerem so natisnjene podobe granatnih jabolk in zgodbe o mitih ter migracijah tega dragocenega sadeža, ki potekajo od Cipra do letališča v Teheranu na poti v Skandinavijo. Ob lepljivih rokah in rdečih madežih granatnih jabolk, ki se razprostirajo po prtu, se semena zgodb pretakajo skoz telesa različnih ljudi, spreminjajo se v entitete, ki segajo še dlje – ter puščajo sledi zgodovine.

Iliada Charalambous, rojena leta 1993 na Cipru, je vizualna umetnica, katere delo se poglablja v možnosti in omejitve demokratičnih skupščin ter v to, kako lahko umetnost kot politika skozi igro s formo, fikcijo/resničnostjo in uporabo performativnega prispeva k radikalni demokraciji. Živi na Nizozemskem in dela na Nizozemskem ter Cipru.

Afrang Nordlöf Malekian, rojen leta 1995 (Iran/Švedska), je umetnik, ki živi v Berlinu in Stockholmu. Dela z zamolčanimi ustvarjalci zgodovine in s performansi ter instalacijami, ki temeljijo na arhivskih raziskavah, raziskuje, kako se njihove neuresničene utopije spreminjajo v prožno silo, ki aktivira skupna prizadevanja. Razstavljal je na prizoriščih, kot so 10. berlinski bienale, Sophiensaele in Moderna Museet.