Fleisch! Video Installation by Maru Ituarte Fleisch! is a video-installation that consists of three CRT monitors mounted on a wooden step stool, each featuring a topless woman wearing a corset, eating a large piece of meat with the hands, while simultaneously covering her breasts with the arms. On the walls around the monitors hang three different sized tryptichs made from the same white and blue/yellow/turquise, checkered material as the cosets, mounted on wooden frames. The point of departure for this work is Merleau-Ponty's notion of Chiasm as the self-revelation of the sense of a world in and through a being which is itself a part of the world, flesh (fleisch) of its flesh. "Flesh" is then where being and world meet: Being is always part of the world - likewise the world is always experienced through being. In the videos, Ituarte and two other women dressed in corsets, eat a Haxe (typical German dish consisting of a grilled pig knee) before the camera. Each of the three women can be seen in their corresponding monitor, but by looking into the camera as they eat, the women also look out of the monitor in a play of gazes that intends to bring the spectator into the work.