Metamaterial

2024, Serigraphic prints
Material: C.I. Pigment Blue 15, corn starch, cotton, cardboard, compost

Metamaterial is an artistic exploration of representations and their material being. At its core are serigraphic prints that depict molecular formulas and micrographs of pigments, rendered using those very same pigments. This collapse of the signifier and signified confronts us with ongoing materializations of meaning and exposes scientific representations as a co-constitutive practice, not objective truth production. Crucially, the manufactured objects were developed and tested to be compostable, highlighting temporal, material-discursive loops spanning biospheres, geospheres, and atmospheres. These objects alone cannot fully encompass their complex genealogies and are supplemented in the thesis by detailed descriptions of their production practices in an attempt to render them as transparent and reproducible as possible.