In spring 2025 Eliza Trefas is in residence at the meet Factory in Prag. She engages with eating disorders through art, aiming to form an exit practice and address the issue by shifting physical and mental hunger towards aesthetic, poetic, art hunger. She is interested in exploring various historical, cultural, literary, philosophical, and personal perspectives on the relationship between oneself and the body. She wishes to examine how the aims of both eating and starving have changed over time.

From Roman feasts with their vomitoriums to gluttony as a cardinal sin in the Middle Ages, from monks' ascetic endeavors to "holy anorexic" nuns, from spiritual fastings to intermittent fasting, from sainthood to patienthood, from periods of helpless famine to voluntary hunger strikes, from the former skeletal body ideals promoted by media to the more recent "body positivity" movements, and from athletes and models to figures like Princess Diana, Trefas is curious about what eating disorders might reflect today, their various causes, and how they can be understood and addressed through different artistic practices, through a subjective, gut-felt pursuit.

There will be showings of the work in progress on 14 and 25 June 2025.