Work in collaboration with Shirin Sabahi.

The work embarks on Diphyllobothrium, a tapeworm that is transmitted from raw fish and causes Diphyllobothriasis infection in human intestines. The common name for this infection is ‘The Scandinavian Housewife’s Disease’ as it was introduced to United States by the flow of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants in the late 1800 and early 1900. The formal resemblance of the tapeworm to the human embryo is emphasized in this work as a mean of embodying ‘the Other within oneself’, a post-colonial term that is used to start the discourse on the Other and its relationship with the body. The images are accordingly chosen from the celebrated ‘Life’ photo series of Lennart Nilsson, a Swedish bio-photographer and the pioneer in the field and an anonymous microscopic image of Diphyllobothrium provided by a medical centre.