The theoretical part of this MA thesis is based on the idea of questioning the artwork in relation to objectness. By that I mean materiality that is not limited to the perception of objectness as such, but rather behaves as an object, as a response to accommodation. Artworks are contained in three agents, namely the painting, the base and the image, all of which attempt to simulate an antibody in three different material representations. An antibody is a body that adapts to other bodies by neutralising the body itself. The boundary between the object and the body begins to fade with accommodation. What is immanent to artworks is the structure of a stain and the non-objectness with which a stain demands us to question the duality and unclarity of objectness. In this respect we're basically questioning the relation between the subject and the object or, better still, the relation between the body and the object, where the body is understood as a necessary interface that is no stranger to alienation. The function of the interface demands a certain place of conjunction, which shall be analysed in the theoretical part of the MA thesis though the notions of objectness in relation to materiality and amorphness of objects.
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