EVA MEYER-KELLER
´Death is Certain´

Performance byEva Meyer-Keller
Performed by Irina Müller
Production: Eva Meyer-Keller
With support from: Vooruit Gent, Stuk Leuven
Thanks to: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Juan Dominguez, Mette Edwardsen, Cuqui Jerez, Martin Nachbar

Cherries have tender skin, meat and a kind of bone inside them. Their juice is red like blood. When you treat them like humans sometimes treat other humans, then they become human themselves or at least animated objects, which invite you to identify yourself with them.
Inspired by fairy tales, where sometimes objects come to life and so become a projection screen for your own experiences and fantasies. In the performance Death is Certain Eva Meyer-Keller has installed sweet cherries as her protagonists. The stalks are removed from the fruit, but they are not washed or stoned any more. Instead they are being killed. She takes care of this business manually, in a way which turns the everyday into something brutal.
The viewer is reminded of deaths from fi lms, but also the reality of executions, how they really happen: associations from individual and collective experience in face of the sweet death at the kitchen table.

Eva Meyer-Keller (b. 1972) works mainly on performances and has been showing her work throughout Europe and America, in galleries and theatres.
Before she graduated from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam she studied photography and visual art in Berlin and London.
Eva’s work is versatile. She often works on several projects at the same time, makes performances, organises festivals/ events, develops projects together with other people and makes increasingly video works. She has also worked for projects of other people or groups such as Baktruppen, Jerome Bel, Christine De Smedt/ les Ballets C de la B and others.