Photobook by Belgian Visual Artist, Katherine Longly
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Eating is never just a technical act.

A source of pleasure or a control tool over one’s body, a way to connect with people or solitary delight, uninhibited or generating anxiety, our relationship with food can take different faces. It is intimately connected to our emotions and acts as a subtle revealer of our social and family history. But where does it lay its foundations?
Katherine Longly was overweight when she was a child. Between control and pleasure, her link with food is always occupied by the ghost of those childhood memories, which shape the image of oneself with force and persistence. During several residencies in Japan, the artist interviewed ten people with different ages and backgrounds, with or without eating disorders, on the subject of their relationship with food and their bodies, and asked them to illustrate this relationship from their point of view, using a disposable camera.
At the crossroads of art and anthropology, this project invites everyone to dig to discover where their relationship with food and their body is rooted.
 
「食べること」は単なる「行動」にとどまらない。喜びの源と同時に自分の体をコントロールする道具。人とつながる手段である一方、孤独な楽しみ。自由気ままになれるものでもあり、不安を生み出すもの…。食と私たちの関係はさまざまな顔を持つ。感情と密に結びつき、社会的かつ個人的な歴史を照らし出すことにもできる。しかしこの食との多様な関係は一体どこから来ているのか？
ベルギー人ヴィジュアルアーティスト、カトリーヌ・ロングリーによるアートと人類学が交差するところに位置するこの写真集は、食と身体の関係がどこから起源し、影響しているのかを私たちに教え、深い問いを投げかけてくる。