I am PR254 (Metamaterial)

The materials used in the series Metamaterial are (per)forming their very own structural formulas, molecular formulas, systematic names and visualites. Dyes and pigments were among the first mass products of the chemical industry, following TNT in the late 19th century. The widespread aesthetical craving for colourful images lead to intense research on the materiality of visibility. The adopted architectural paradigm form follows function fueled new modes of molecular representations, theories and strategies in synthetic chemistries which originated modern pharmaceutical and biological regimes of production. The series Metamaterial investigates the complex relations between materials, their productions and their representations. Opposing western representational art, the materials used are representing themselves, therefore starting an endless recursive self-reference.