A decellularised organ is one that has been submerged in a solution that kills all living cells, leaving only the protein matrix behind. The decellularised "ghost heart" can then be placed in living bodies to help understand broken tissue and organ rejections of that living flesh.

Synchrodogs

Amie Dicke Detail: Under-Current, Museum van Loon during Salon/2, 2011

Two Lines and Three Frames, Print on paper with sandpaper abrasion, 150 x 195 cm, (Photo: Hans Georg Gaul)

Amie Dicke, Overview Claustrophobic at Foundation Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam 2009

I like how they look like items put away for storage, disregarded in a way, yet at the same time how the ropes and plastic cling so desperately, nervously to them, never wanting to let the objects go. Inadvertently, more is revealed than is (literally) hidden. The mundane and everyday is made unattainable; sofas can’t be sat on, old portraits of faces cannot be touched or properly seen. Things that are taken for granted are held at a distance, concealed just enough for them to be missed again.

Decomposing portrait of a soldier

Decomposing portrait of a woman 1920s