hayley white

Latex, metal, paper, water and mixed media, Installation. 2018 / 1998.

Preoccupied with the appetite, both sexual and metabolic, this work brings desire, sex and food together. It questions the providence of flesh that we eat and our sexual appetites, together in an immersive visceral, cold and familiar surroundings of a butchers shop, where distinctly female and human remains hang.

The work looks at the ethical treatment of food, cannibalism and the ‘ethical’ views on the sexualisiation of the female body. It asks the viewer to consider their own appetites and views on both the consumption of meat both sexually and as food, where  women are ‘consumed’, even devoured.

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The work also makes a passing commentary on the rise of eating disorders in direct correlation to the media’s sexualisation of women.