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 an ongoing dialogue in which images behave like living substances: they oscillate, dissolve, and stratify.

They are not closed forms, but pure signs: fields of possibility that open up and transform through proximity, friction, and sequence. In the book, the images do not illustrate a concept, but rather enact it.

Each photograph is treated as a moving particle, part of a dynamic system in which the organic and inorganic, the natural and artificial, the visible and invisible intermingle.

Every attempt to fix an image becomes an act of loss, yet it is precisely in this loss that new resonances emerge. The pages create a space in which images interact with one another, generating a landscape of transitions rather than stable states.

Matter is understood as a metamorphic principle: that which resists and changes at the same time, the invisible network that holds every transformation together. Here, “each image contains the others like an inner echo.”