I am Hungry

“I Am Hungry” is a performed installation composed of twenty-four terracotta rice pudding bowls, each formed in the shape of a vulva. Arranged across a worn wooden table with aged cloths, the vessels bring together food, the female body, and the familiarity of the domestic table.

During the performance, Batur eats from each of the twenty-four bowls. The same action is repeated from one vessel to the next: eating, finishing, moving on, and beginning again. What begins as an ordinary act of nourishment accumulates through repetition, placing increasing demands on the body.

The repetition exists both in the action and in the objects themselves. Twenty-four vulva-shaped vessels occupy the table, multiplying the bodily form as Batur moves through them one by one. Eating becomes a repeated encounter between the body performing the action and the bodily forms from which it eats.

Developed from a childhood memory, the work connects eating with care, expectation, and the domestic roles through which food is prepared and given. As the performance continues, hunger becomes increasingly difficult to separate from obligation: the body continues to eat because the action requires it to continue.

“I Am Hungry” pushes a familiar act beyond its ordinary purpose through repetition. Across twenty-four bowls, nourishment becomes endurance, while the repeated vulva form keeps the female body materially present throughout the act of eating.