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In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the action of eating a pomegranate binds Persephone to the underworld. In Once Bitten, broken fragments of the fruit’s flesh have been cast in concrete; the exchange of one material for another arrests the processes of decay and memorialises desire.
Each edition is unique, therefore size and finish might vary slightly from the picture.
Jasmine Pajdak (born 1987) lives and works in London. Working across sculpture, performance and print she explores the social and sensory problematics of intimacy between different bodies of matter.
Pajdak graduated with an MA in Print from the Royal College of Art (2019) and previously studied at the Royal Drawing School (2014) and Falmouth University (2009). Solo presentations include Flayed, 16:8 Kingsgate Billboard Residency (2021) and Sweet Nowheres, Little Gallery, Calgary, Canada (2018). Group exhibitions include: On Holding, Lambeth Court House, London (2021); And in me too the wave rises, Lewisham Art House, London (2019); What a Relief!?, CGP Gallery, London (2019); Becoming and Dissolving, Alice Black Gallery, London (2017); and Lexis over Land, Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall (2017).
