Removals


  • Photographer
    Maija Tammi
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Freelancer
  • Date of Photograph
    2011-2013
  • Technical Info
    digital photography

It is always someone else’s disease. We project our fear of illness, fear of our own dissolution to the world and locate it in the Other. It is not us, but the Other who totters on the brink of collapse. But remove the Other. Removals shows the most common diseases a few minutes after the operations, in a corner of an operating room, lit by an operating room light, in a kidney bowl, in two hospitals in Tampere, Finland. These are everyone’s and no-ones’ diseases.

Story

It is always someone else’s disease. We project our fear of illness, fear of our own dissolution to the world and locate it in the Other. It is not us, but the Other who totters on the brink of collapse.

But remove the Other.
“These body fluids, this defilement, this shit are what life withstands, hardly and with difficulty, on the part of death. There, I am at the border of my condition as a living being.“ Julia Kristeva in Powers Of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982).
Removals shows the most common diseases a few minutes after the operations, in a corner of an operating room, lit by an operating room light, in a kidney bowl, in two hospitals in Tampere, Finland.

These are everyone’s and no-ones’ diseases.

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