Eating disorders are not an individual weakness, but a bodily manifestation of a cultural contradiction.

My practice investigates the intersection between personal experience and the cultural construction of the body, focusing on eating disorders as both intimate and social phenomena. My engagement with this subject emerges from personal experience, through which I have come to understand how fragile and contradictory the relationship between desire, control, and consumption can be.

Through painting, I construct hyper-sensory images in which sweetness, excess, and bodily fragmentation coexist. Cakes, whipped cream, fruit, and sugar function as seductive surfaces that promise pleasure, yet gradually transform into unstable environments where the body appears both consuming and consumed.

The mouth is a recurring motif in my work, operating as a threshold between desire and control. It marks the point where pleasure enters the body, but also where discipline, shame, and regulation emerge. Enlarged tongues, exposed teeth, and exaggerated lips destabilize the boundary between interior and exterior, self and other.

My work is informed by feminist perspectives that understand eating disorders not only as individual experiences, but as symptoms of broader cultural structures shaped by expectations surrounding femininity, self-discipline, and visibility. Within contemporary consumer culture, food is aestheticized and eroticized, while bodies are expected to remain controlled. This contradiction forms the conceptual core of my practice.

Visually, I am interested in the tension between seduction and discomfort. Glossy textures and confectionery colors attract the viewer, while distortion and excess produce unease. This unstable visual language reflects the cyclical movement between desire, guilt, pleasure, and bodily anxiety. By merging edible environments with fragmented bodies, my paintings attempt to make visible the psychological spaces where control and vulnerability continuously collide.