Plastic bags carry colours, graphics and words specific to particular places and cultures. From grocery stores to luxury boutiques, they serve as both packaging and advertising.

I collect these bags and combine them into collages, working with heat, pressure and the unpredictable behaviour of the material.

The bags lose their original function and become images. I am interested in the relationship between recognition and abstraction.

After use, plastic bags follow different paths. They may be discarded, recycled, or kept in a bag of bags, waiting to be used again.

In the collages, words, shapes and familiar signs become part of new images, taking on meanings beyond their original use.

Beginning

2022

The idea was spark within the workshop Sustainable Creative Practice by Iyanina Prudenko and Aleskei Shulgin during the Master's degree program ArtTech at NUST MISIS, 2022

Icon

2022 40x50 cm

Black on Red

2022 50x38 cm

Mantra for XXI century

2023 48x36 cm

Starry Eyes

2023 70x52 cm

I’m Green, Am I?

2023 50x60 cm

Icon II

2025 50x70 cm

Black Flower

2025 30x20 cm

Basic

2025 47x28 cm

Fragmented phrases like “Basic is beautiful” or “Please reuse me” become parts of faces, turning language into expression and slogans into open questions.

Soma

2025 50x70 cm

100%

2025 10x15 cm

Green Flower

2023 20x30 cm

Hanging Joe

2023 50x28 cm

Grid

2026 10x15 cm

Credits

UnderPlastic

Created by art duo GND, Grisha Tsvetkov x Nadya Xyxu

2026 Shoe Stories, The Ruth Youth Wing for Art Education, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2025 Great Perhaps, KakdelArt residency x Herzl House, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2023 0,0: Zero Waste art and design, Krasnoholmaskaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2022 FAW LITE by FineArtWay, Cosmoscow, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia

Thanks

Ianina Prudenko, Aleksei Shulgin, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Ekaterina Belyaeva

Diana Motsonoshvilli, FineArtWay Alexander Serechenko, Ekaterina Pryanichnikova, Grey Cake

Viktoria Kostuik, Shufra Shoes Vyacheslav Lukyanov, Sobirator

Evgenia Aniklidetz, Print Market

Dasha Ilyashenko, KakDelArt Yahel Nevo, Herzel House,