Subserotic Bulge

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

Single-channel video 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. Belly swelling, a fleshy block pushed its way out at astonishing speed. But every diagnostic tool - the first poke of a finger, to WebMD, x-rays and MRI - came up short. From meteorite falls to experiences of the medical system, the video asks about diagnosis and how some 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.