Eva Meyer-Keller asks us to watch, live, the assassination of juicy, tender cherries upon whom she inflicts thirty different ways to die, using dangerous objects of torture such as a hairdryer, a hammer, dental floss, matches and bobby pins.
The cherries have soft skin, flesh (fruit) and a sort of bone inside the flesh. Their juice is as red as blood. When they are treated like some human beings treat others, they become animated objects with which we can identify. In placing the cherries in directed situations, in little rituals both sinister and playful, Eva Meyer-Keller constructs little by little a hypnotic space in which the imagination takes on a reality which no one wants to look at – that of being put to death. Using a lot of – black – humor, Death is certain is somewhere between body art and the light and dark landscapes of our fairy tales.
