Flis Holland
BEMIS CENTER
The video docu-fiction Subserotic Bulge is the latest in a series of works in which Flis Holland, a former asteroid defense systems researcher, explores a new relationship to meteorites and asteroids. Informed by sci-fi, the video tells the story of the artist’s repurposing of bio-eaters, or rock-eating microbes, as they ingests the asteroid defense life form. The story goes like this: In 2019, an iron meteorite was filed to dust, stirred into cream, and fed to 36 people. Soon after, Flis Holland’s uterus was rife with tumors. Their belly swelled as a fleshy block pushed its way out at astonishing speed. From the first finger poke to WebMD and x-rays, every diagnostic came up short, culminating in the catastrophic failure of an MRI scan. But Holland’s telling of it is rather different from the medical notes.
BIOGRAPHY
Flis Holland is an artist and former space engineer who currently lives in Helsinki where they are completing a Doctorate in Fine Art (DFA) at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality is their first exhibition in the United States.
Flis Holland
BEMIS CENTER
The video docu-fiction Subserotic Bulge is the latest in a series of works in which Flis Holland, a former asteroid defense systems researcher, explores a new relationship to meteorites and asteroids. Informed by sci-fi, the video tells the story of the artist’s repurposing of bio-eaters, or rock-eating microbes, as they ingests the asteroid defense life form. The story goes like this: In 2019, an iron meteorite was filed to dust, stirred into cream, and fed to 36 people. Soon after, Flis Holland’s uterus was rife with tumors. Their belly swelled as a fleshy block pushed its way out at astonishing speed. From the first finger poke to WebMD and x-rays, every diagnostic came up short, culminating in the catastrophic failure of an MRI scan. But Holland’s telling of it is rather different from the medical notes.
BIOGRAPHY
Flis Holland is an artist and former space engineer who currently lives in Helsinki where they are completing a Doctorate in Fine Art (DFA) at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality is their first exhibition in the United States.