Bahar Heidarzade. The colour ruby

A guided tour with the curator of the Fruit Museum and the Iranian artist Bahar Heidarzade, exploring the pomegranate – a fruit with powerful symbolic significance that spans all Mediterranean cultures, representing a means of encounter and exchange that binds peoples, their lands and their histories. In Iran, on the night of Yalda, during the winter solstice, Iranian families still eat pomegranate seeds to invoke the return of light. It is a rite of resistance. For the Iranian artist, presenting a pomegranate – virtually completing the Garnier Valletti collections – is a way of drawing the public’s attention to the need for cultural encounter and dialogue.”

• Meeting: «Francesco Garnier Valletti» Fruit Museum, 15 Via Pietro Giuria – Turin
• Free guided tour
• Reservations: T 011 6708195