As a farmer, I harvest a tonne of rice yearly. I have used my rice for the performance ‘Under My Skin’.

For the live performance, I stick the rice on my body with a paste of cooked rice. I invite the viewers to peel the ‘skin’ off me and I fry the ‘skin’ and give it back to the viewer to eat. The ‘skin’ contains, my sweat, dry skin and body hair. This act subjects the viewer to a metaphorical canibalism.

I was interested to interrogate the politics of visuality and the structures through which the subject takes place through the inevitably eroticized exchange of interpretation. If my work is read only in phallocentric terms, it would ignore both the identity and context of authorship. Outwardly the work might be conforming to phallocentric expectations but I am offering a critical alternative reading by manipulating my terms of embodiment.