This Lemon Tastes of Apple
2011
Documenting an intervention undertaken by the artist on April 17th 2011 in Sulaimany during one of the last days of the civil protest, this work connects the detoxifying role of lemons, employed to combat the teargas protestors encountered, to the suffocating gas Saddam's forces poured into Kurdish settlements in 1988, the chemicals in which smelled of apple
HD video, 16:9, color, sound (Kurdish language)
13:26 minutes
Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca