Claus Lam

"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 the signified confronts us with the ongoing materialization of meaning and exposes scientific representation 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 over 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 as reproducible as possible.