15/05/2026
Tonight @ «Mirror, pixel & stars - Patrizier und Zünfte»
tamir_hadar_ “IN THE NAME OF”
Tamir Hadar
Curated by
Julia Harrauer & Marlene Stahl
Actions may be authorized, and absolved, through the sovereign currency of belief.
The pomegranate occupies a centrifugal point of royalty, blessing, and righteousness: a symbolism distributed across civilizations, carrying particular weight within Jewish tradition as an ancient cipher for abundance and fertility. Across Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian, Christian, and Islamic traditions alike, the fruit has consistently occupied a threshold space, suspended between life and death, earth and paradise, the mortal and the divine. That the Hebrew “Rimon” (lip?) names simultaneously the pomegranate and the gr***de is not, then, an anomaly. It is an unguarded articulation of what the symbol has always held.
This linguistic doubling does not merely complicate the symbol, it detonates it, opening a volatile field in which the generative and the annihilating are held in unresolved suspension.
Within the installation, the video documents rotting pomegranates thrown against white fabric, the projection calibrated to fall precisely upon the existing stains. It’s not decoration, it’s a rupture. The fruit’s idealized iconography is contaminated, recast as an index of damage, decay, and dispossession.
It acts as friction between symbolic authority and its contemporary application: an interrogation of what it costs to honor tradition when tradition is conscripted into the service of destruction, and of the precise moment at which images of life become mechanisms of harm.
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