The work is a performative video that engages visually and conceptually one of the most durable icons of art historical representation: still life. The video shows the artist performing the ingestion of a typically-arranged still life, comprised of various food items composed on a table. The scenery, as well as the lights, costume and the careful gestures of the artist come to efficiently suggest the authenticity of the theme. But besides the familiarity of the layout and of the subject, there is nothing predictable here, either in terms of visuality, or in those concerning the outcome of the work.  The performing body speaks about one of its most basic functions: eating. Ingestion as the condition for living. But it suggests also the idea of consumption—of food and of cultural act. Food as food for thought. But the most powerful suggestion here is given by the subtle contrast between the active body and the very idea of still life. A contrast that transfers actually the whole tensions existing between the two terms, in English and French, that describe the genre – (still)“life” and (nature)“morte”.