Klara Djamila Kassman Soukkan

The degree project “Material Death” questions the idea that materials can become finished
or dead. In our systems of production and disposal, materials are treated as if their
life ends when we throw them away. However, matter never disappears. It continues
to exist, circulate and affect bodies, ecologies and infrastructures.

In my practice, I work with discarded materials and weave them together with hemp
as warp. The weaving process becomes a slow way of staying with materials that
have been declared finished. Instead of correcting or redeeming them, I try to remain
with them and acknowledge their continued presence. The work becomes a form of maintenance, a practice of attention and responsibility toward materials.

The project aims to transform how we perceive materials.
I am matter, you are matter, in time and in place.
A meditation on material, time and relations.