Impression, proche orient 1 | Jordan
Jordan Cucumber
2010
acrylic paint on fresh cucumbers
24 x ( 6 x 1.5 ) inches
Starting point for Bogaert’s ‘Jordan Cucumber Project’ is a wordplay often used by Khalid Mishal, the leader of Hamas. In discussing the so-called Jordan Option, by which Palestinians might be driven from the West Bank to live among their eastern neighbors, he jokingly calls it the ‘Jordan cucumber’ because the Arabic word ‘khiyar’ translates as both ‘option’ and ‘cucumber.’ The ‘Jordan Cucumber Project’ consists of a translucent tablecloth greenhouse, 6 seedlings and painted and rotten cucumbers.
Inspired by ‘Kill Khalid – the Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas’ by Paul McGeough, The New York Press, 2009.
