Comparitive Guts (1) is a comparative exhibition about the human body, and in particular about the body part traditionally linked to nutrition and digestion, but also endowed with emotional, ethical, and metaphysical significance, depending on the representation and narrative.

By offering access to culturally, socially, historically, and sensorially different experiential contexts, Comparative Guts allows the visitor a glimpse into the variety and richness of embodied self-definition, human imagination about our (as well as animal) bodies’ physiology and functioning, our embodied exchange with the external world, and the religious significance of the way we are ‘made’ as living creatures. This dive into difference is simultaneously an enlightening illustration of what is common and shared among living beings.

Apart from the interactive website, there is an open access digital version of the catalogue available as a pdf (2).

(1) https://comparative-guts.net/
(2) https://doi.org/10.38071/2024-00345-3