Devour is a visceral exploration of a queer body in conflict, torn between desire and disgust, blood and bone. Working across embodied movement, written prose, and vampiric symbols the morality of hunger is examined through the consumption of a lover. Embracing confusion, hunger and want, Devour spits glitter and gore into the face of the shame that bore it and the audiences who watch it unfold.
The work emerged from Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ one of the first vampire horror stories that also allowed lesbian interaction into the public consciousness. The collision of ‘these women are in love, and these women are going to kill each other’ creates an interesting collision for the work to investigate. The desire to find softness in a monster, and to be permissive of a more monstrous self.
'She belonged to your mother', 2023, CCP Summer Salon
