“While we traditionally associate food consumption with satisfying basic needs, daily meal preps, awkward family dinners, or culturally rooted collective rituals and celebrations, the media artistic duo NEOZOON offers a darker and more bizarre depiction of human eating habits. Love Goes Through The Stomach compiles images of food as an obsession, fetish, or a source of emotional and sensual satisfaction. 

Once again working with YouTube-found footage materials, NEOZOON playfully sequences a choir of lonely fans of rustling packaging, ASMRish sounds of munching and slurping, discount hunters, aspiring chefs, or followers of online trends such as #whatieatinaday. As the selection includes carnivores only, Love Goes Through The Stomach quickly takes a disturbing turn—not only uncomfortably reminding us of the political implications of our dietary choices but also stylistically evoking body horror. 

Nearly a decade since the film’s original release, the doom-scrolling era has intensified. More than ever, it’s not the food itself but rather its simulacrum, the high-quality images of food, that fills our stomachs. Ceci n’est pas de la nourriture!” — Emilia Mazik