Welcome, dear guests, to BITE, MEASURE, OBEY — a place where every bite is counted, every portion measured, and every plate knows who’s in charge.

This project is an immersive installation that takes the form of a fictional restaurant experience, critically exploring eating disorders and the systems of control imposed on the body.

Visitors are welcomed into a fictional restaurant where they are guided to their table, where the performative experience begins. The action unfolds through a sequence of changing tablecloths, each introducing different dishes, gestures, and behavioral instructions.

No real food is served. Instead, embroidered 3D representations of dishes replace consumption. As the “host,” I instruct guests on how to withhold, control, and hide food, transforming the act of eating into a ritual of restriction.

Through the staging of a familiar dining situation, the installation reveals the hidden and often invisible rituals of eating disorders.

The project emerges from my personal story with eating disorder and the importance of questioning how much fear, control, and social pressure can be embedded within the simple act of eating, and how we can approach someone living with an eating disorder not through the desire to “fix” them, but through listening and understanding.

They say cooking is an act of love. I say: it’s an act of mathematics. Every gram a confession, every calorie a secret.

But I built this place anyway. Not to feed, but to stage the performance.

Seven plates full, one perfectly empty — mine, naturally.

Maybe this restaurant isn’t about food at all. Maybe it’s just about learning to fast with style.