CONSUMED is a visually bold and conceptually layered body of work that interrogates the performance of femininity, the ritual of eating, and the politics of looking. Drawing from a lineage of radical feminist artists and performance histories, this series positions food not as subject matter alone, but as a metaphorical and material site through which cultural anxieties around gender, desire, and consumption are vividly enacted.

Inspired by the radical feminist art of the 1960s and ’70s, including the provocative performances of Natalia LL, Carolee Schneemann, and the subversive humor of Hannah Wilke, CONSUMED explores the complex relationship between women, food, and the politics of representation in contemporary visual culture. In today’s hyper-mediated world, food and femininity have become strangely entangled in the spectacle of image culture. Drawing from feminist performance traditions, CONSUMED interrogates how seemingly innocent acts - like eating - are imbued with layers of voyeurism, control, and social expectation.

The project unfolds across media: it began with a sequence of vivid food paintings - croissant, sausage, soup, ice cream - each rendered with a playful yet uncanny precision. These paintings recall both domestic still lifes and advertising iconography, revealing the thin line between appetite and seduction. But these were never meant to remain static. The artist reintroduces the same foods into photographic performance, placing herself - costumed, stylized, and sharply lit - into carefully staged tableaus where she consumes each item in full view of the camera.