Metaphysics of Core Matter is a foundational interrogation of contemporary materials at the intersection of art, research and industry. Artist Silja Yvette explores packaging bodies in their problematic dimensions and expansion for the environment. In the social context, packaging bodies are to be understood as archetypes of consumption - mass-produced articles made of foam, Styrofoam, aluminum, which are already worthless at the moment of their destination. These materials, which are quickly disposed of in everyday life, are taken care of by Silja Yvette and raised to a symbolic pedestal. A new value is ascribed to them with a reference to what they actually stand for: an image of the contemporary reality of accelerated life. A construction kit of modernity. With a sensual aesthetic and iconic staging that provokes the foreign in the familiar, Silja Yvette invites the viewers of her works to come into closer contact with their motifs. In this way, the foreign in the familiar leads to a confrontation with the everyday in an extraordinary dimension of perception and resistance at the same time, a being touched as an impetus for reflections on sustainability and feelings about our earth, world and our own actions.

In contrast to the image motifs, the series poses the question of its own photographic production and incorporates above all bio-based and recycled raw materials. This approach is unusual for the branch of photography; photo production and presentation often has a poor ecological footprint for very different reasons and thus fatal effects on the environment, humans and animals.

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