LISA NILSSON was first intrigued by novel perspectives on human anatomy when she came across an image of a torso cross section in a surgical manual from 1911. Seeing artistic potential, she searched for more tissue sections and found photographs of frozen and sliced cadavers. For many people, she realised, it can be difficult to see the beauty in images of our own blood, guts, bones and brains. “People get grossed out by a deli-sliced view of humanity,” she says.
To transform disgust into awe, Nilsson created her Tissue Series. In it, she turns stark anatomical photographs into collages…
