Subserotic Bulge

Digital video, 17′26″, captions (English or Finnish), audio described.

Online video for Frame Contemporary Art Finland 2021; dual-channel video 2023.

In 2019 an iron meteorite was filed to dust, stirred into cream, and fed to 36 people. Flis’s uterus was rife with tumours soon after. Their belly swelled as a fleshy block pushed its way out at astonishing speed. The first poke of a finger, WebMD, x-rays, MRI - each diagnostic tool came up short. From meteorite falls to trans experiences of the medical system, the video asks about diagnosis and how certain people’s testimony is dismissed as unreliable.

Subserotic Bulge (2021/2023), video still. An MRI scan of an abdomen, with two tumour masses highlighted in bright green.

Subserotic Bulge (2021/2023), video still. An MRI scan of an abdomen, with two tumour masses highlighted in bright green.

Subserotic Bulge (2021), video still. A lump of rock covered in red-brown rust sits on bubble wrap.

Subserotic Bulge (2021), video still. A lump of rock covered in red-brown rust sits on bubble wrap.