Grooming I, 2025

Grooming I performs the act of eating a raw onion, a practice inspired by the chimpanzees at the Artis Zoo. Chimpanzees in captivity love eating onions, and through pondering ways to become more primal, more animal, and more in touch with nature, I have been training myself to eat raw onions like the captured apes. Clad in a fur bikini I meet the modern ape halfway, from my place within the modern human condition. Brokedly mending and mashing histories of hierarchies and human superiority I am continuously searching for ways for us all to regain autonomy over our animalistic roots.

Photographed by Hannah Schleifer.