Cherries have a soft skin, flesh and a stone. Their juice is the colour of blood. If you handle them as people sometimes do one another, they will of course become slightly human/inhuman, which is an invitation for you to identify with them. As in fairytales, where inanimate objects can come to life and form a projection screen for your own fantasies and experiences.
In the successful performance 'Death is Certain', which Eva Meyer-Keller created a few years ago, the cherries were the protagonists. In the winter, when cherries are more scarce, they were occasionally replaced with cherry tomatoes. She has transformed this performance into an equally powerful video. Here too the cherry stalks are removed but the fruit is generally not rinsed or stoned. It is simply cold-bloodedly finished off: skinned, burned, drowned, pierced and pulverized. Eva Meyer-Keller playfully creates a true battlefield on an ordinary, everyday kitchen table.