Maria Orciuoli’s first video work discusses consumer culture and accelerationism from the point of view of the body and the mind. The installation consists of a video projection, gummy candies, and a customized sensor seat. The artist is shown ravenously eating a pile of waste: a binge eating ritual until the closing purging ceremony. Filtered through the artist’s experience of recovering from an eating disorder, the video questions society’s mainstream values as the protagonist finds herself oversaturated by conflicting impulses. Borrowing the title from the 2017 Astronomical Journal report on the RZ Piscium star dubbed Eater of Worlds for being surrounded by the wreckage of planets it has consumed, the video is a commentary on the current “capitalism hangover”.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
