Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, I don't like this painting. But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, Actually, that's not so bad.

This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like Günter Brus, and then you have Salvador Dalí of course, then much later, Marina Abramović and Ulay, with their nude series in Italy. It's an ongoing conversation. There was nothing cruel about Méret's Oppenheim piece.

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.