MICALI, Martha & Klim KUTSEVKYYDialogues on Becoming Matter

Printed in Offset, Indigo and Risograph. Long stitch binding by Lotta Bindery. Solkscreen cover. Signed copy

Dialogues on Becoming Matter is an artist's book developed over five years of visual exchange between Martha Micali and Klim Kutsevskyy. Emerging from the question “What is the matter of the image?” , the book unfolds as a continuous dialogue in which images behave as living substances—oscillating, dissolving, stratifying. They are not closed forms but pure signs: fields of possibility that open and transform through proximity, friction, and sequence.
In the book, images do not illustrate a concept; rather, they enact it. Each photograph is treated as a particle in motion, part of a dynamic system where organic and inorganic, natural and artificial, visible and invisible intermingle. Every attempt to fix an image becomes a gesture of loss—yet it is in this loss that new resonances appear. The pages create a space where images react to one another, generating a landscape of transitions instead of stable states. Matter is understood as a metamorphic principle: what resists and changes at once, the invisible mesh that holds together every transformation. Here,“every image contains the others as an interior echo.”

Photography, paper works, collages, graphics: five years of visual dialogue between the two artists who founded the publishing house.