Underplastic
Plastick bags · Collage · Heat Pressed
The Plastic Bag Thermal Collage Series
This series focuses on single-use plastic bags, whose lifecycle typically follows one of several familiar paths: being used and endlessly recycled, stored indefinitely in a "bag of bags", or drifting into the invisible landscape of waste, from street gutters to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The artists propose another possibility,a transformation into visual and emotional language, giving these objects a new voice.
Collected, disassembled, and reassembled, the bags become expressive compositions rooted in collage, portraiture, and abstraction.
Through thermal processing, they are reshaped into textured surfaces that shift the viewer’s focus from function to form, from utility to reflection.
Fragmented phrases like “Basic is beautiful” or “Please reuse me” become parts of faces, turning language into expression and slogans into open questions.
The project contributes by offering a new way of seeing the ordinary — as a site of symbolic and aesthetic potential. It is a quiet gesture of attention, an invitation to notice what usually goes unseen.
Originally developed by GND art duo, Nadya Xyxu and Grisha Tsvetkov.
Concept
The Plastic Bag Thermal Collage Series
This series focuses on single-use plastic bags, whose lifecycle typically follows one of several familiar paths: being used and endlessly recycled, stored indefinitely in a "bag of bags", or drifting into the invisible landscape of waste, from street gutters to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The artists propose another possibility — a transformation into visual and emotional language, giving these objects a new voice.
Collected, disassembled, and reassembled, the bags become expressive compositions rooted in collage, portraiture, and abstraction. Through thermal processing, they are reshaped into textured surfaces that shift the viewer’s focus from function to form, from utility to reflection.
Fragmented phrases like “Basic is beautiful” or “Please reuse me” become parts of faces, turning language into expression and slogans into open questions.
The project contributes by offering a new way of seeing the ordinary — as a site of symbolic and aesthetic potential. It is a quiet gesture of attention, an invitation to notice what usually goes unseen.
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Credits
Originally developed
by GND art duo
Nadya Xyxu x Grisha Tsvetkov
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