About the Project:
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 in a meditative way as well as referencing displacement and loss, which sadly in the Palestinian context feels endless. In the recent genocide in Palestine, I wonder: who will peel pomegranates for those we have lost?
About the Photographer:
Yaqeen Yamani (she/her, b.1997) is a Yemeni Palestinian photographer and artist who received a BA in Media Studies and Film from the Al-Quds Bard College and is a Fulbright Scholar with an MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.Yamani is currently a resident at Twelve Arts Gates in Philadelphia and a manatee at Magnum Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, and AFAC. Yamani’s art practice includes photography, video, and printmaking. Her process centers material experimentation to explore themes of identity, rage, and grief. Through the use of language, image and text, Yamani’s current body of work focuses on modes of resistance, intervention, disruption, and reclamation. Besides her artistic practice,Yaqeen is community oriented and enjoys teaching art, photography, and organizing film screenings for the community by running a Jericho Cinema Club.
