"EAT ME: GLUTTONY OR LUST" BY LYGIA PAPE – PRODUCTION AND CENSORSHIP OF DESIRE, FEMINISM AND CONSUMPTION

Abstract

Considering the movie "Eat Me" by Lygia Pape – a reference piece for the experimen-
tal Brazilian art of the 70s, and accused of moral assault during the civil-military dic-
tatorship – this essay elaborates a dialogue between the conceptual relationship of

eating and desire, transmuted into political and poetic activity by the artist, where the

connections to the cannibalistic theory of Oswald, the conceptualization of the mouth-
machine desiring in Deleuze/Guattari, and the "eating" as a practice of symbolic re-
sistance in Agamben share space with feminist debates in the national level and its

reverberations in artistic practice.