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A rigorous critique of representation would altogether eliminate the dual planes of culture/nature, human/non-human, sign/world, text/matter, not in the manner of Hegel, toward an idealism that would construe all of being as mental, but in the manner of Nietzsche and Deleuze, toward a thoroughgoing materialism that would construe human symbolic life as a specific instance of the transformative process to be found throughout the natural world – from the chemical reactions of inorganic matter to the rarefied domain of textual interpretation – a process Nietzsche called by various names, among them ‘becoming’, ‘interpretation’, and ‘will to power’.6
Cox, C. (2011) ‘Beyond representation and signification: Toward a sonic materialism’, Journal of Visual Culture, 10(2), pp. 145–161. doi:10.1177/1470412911402880.

Materiality is not to be confused with materialism. Art is not merely a commodity. Though influenced by the economics of exchange that fuels production of art, materiality, “the quality or character of being material or composed of matter,” is distinct. On the other hand, materialism is “a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values; the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications” negates the complexity of art.
Mills, Christina Murdoch, “Materiality as the Basis for the Aesthetic Experience in Contemporary Art” (2009). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 1289. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/1289

I think I am very much a materialism and the way I am making art, I start to produce lots of rubbish…I love the feeling holding in hands…