Taste Me

Taste Me reflects on how sexualized marketing turns the female body into a product for consumption and food into a metaphor for desire. Inspired by the aesthetics of food porn, fast-food advertising, and commercial clichés, I exaggerate to the point of absurdity the visual language through which contemporary image culture sells not so much food as pleasure itself.

In a series self-portrait, I literally become food, visually quoting stereotypes such as “she is tasty” or “she is juicy.” I create generative images with Midjourney, using real sexualized advertising slogans as text prompts. These visualizations reproduce the logic of advertising and drive it to the level of grotesque. By merging body and commodity, the project explores how advertising constructs desire through images designed to stimulate appetite, attraction, and consumption simultaneously.

The sexualization of food is now so deeply embedded in visual culture that the effect often reverses: when sex is being sold to us, it increasingly resembles food advertising. Descriptions of women on escort websites, for example, can read like gourmet menus, while advertising photography aestheticizes bodies in the same way it aestheticizes products. The languages of food and sex become interchangeable, blurring the line between the desire to consume and the consumption of desire.

By appropriating and distorting the seductive codes of advertising food photography, the project reflects on photography not only as a tool of representation, but also as a mechanism that shapes fantasies, commercializes intimacy, and turns both bodies and emotions into consumable surfaces.

Part 1 — Self-portraits

Part 2 — Images generated with Midjorney

Part 3