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In
this video work the artists gnaws and picks at her flesh, sometimes
violently tearing flesh
away from her
body with her teeth. She
swallows and spits out the skin torn from her body, acts that respectively
display self-disgust and self-love. The making of this work involved
the attachment of raw spring roll pastry to the artist’s body as
visually representative of skin. Making obvious the unhealthy association
of the
act of eating with flesh, exposing the female fear of food as being directly
linked to a fear of flesh. Acknowledging the fact that if one deprives
the body of food, the body begins to consume itself.This work comments
on the opposing bodily emotions promoted by the contemporary cult of
thinness
and highlights
the damaging
potential of employing terminology such as “size 0” to describe
the female form. |
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