Common Matter

This exhibition presents objects from a future we are only beginning to imagine. They are made of GEOBRIS - a material composed of mealworm frass and bio-based plastic. Raw and earthy, fleetingly malleable, then hard and vulnerable.
While the abstract shapes travel throughout the space creating otherworldly experience, by smell, light and different states of GEOBRIS material, the exhibition emphasis is a process of sensing, testing, and questioning - of new ways of working, new modes of coexistence, and material as a collaborator.
What becomes visible here is the condensation of a week of collective work, in which artists, researchers, machines, and materials entered into relation. A process of sensing, testing, and questioning – of new ways of working, new modes of coexistence, and material as a collaborator.
Through engaging with GEOBRIS, both technical and bodily experiences were gathered, disciplinary boundaries blurred, and new approaches to shaping and making were explored. The space became a platform for collective transformation: between past and future, nature and industry, action and consequence.
The forms on display are traces – of heat, hand, and intention. Fragments of a process that remains unfinished.
The exhibition is a result of collaborative process together with Yana Zschiedrich, Taisiia Kravchenko, Olena Melnyk and Corinna Marie Wolff, where for one week at MERG which is part of TU Chemnitz , we were collaboratively experimenting with a new material called GEOBRIS that Yana Zschiedrich is developing. Geobris is a material composed of mealworm frass and bio-based plastic.

Photos by Fabian Thüroff