Woman, Eating (2022)

Lydia is a mixed-heritage young artist living in London who desperately wants to eat ramen, soba and pastries like normal humans, yet cannot digest anything other than pig blood or human blood. Claire Kohda reframes vampirism as an acute modern eating disorder, entwined with diasporic alienation and cultural shame. Watching food videos in a chilly studio flat while craving nourishment she cannot assimilate, Lydia's loneliness speaks directly to anyone who has ever felt disconnected from the rituals of table and fellowship. It is a tender, sharp portrait of bodily longing in a world saturated with food culture.