Collected, disassembled, and reassembled, the plastic bags become expressive compositions rooted in collage, portraiture, and abstraction.

Through thermal heating and pressing they are reshaped into new objects.

Shifting perception of plastic bags: From function to form, From utility to reflection.

Lifecycle of plastic bags follows one of familiar paths:

Being used and after drifting into landscape of waste, from streets and garbage's to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Being used and being recycled for new uses.

Being store like in a bag with bags and waiting for new use.

The artists propose another possibility:

Transformation into visual and emotional language, giving these objects a new voice.

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 40x50 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.

Flow

2025 52x40 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

2022 FAW LITE by FineArtWat, Cosmoscow, International contemporary art fair, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia

2023 0,0: Zero Waste art and design, Krasnoholmaskaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2025 Great Perhaps, KakdelArt residency x Herzl House, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Thanks

Ianina Prudenko, Aleksei Shulgin, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Ekaterina Belyaeva

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

Vyacheslav Lukyanov, Sobirator

Evgenia Aniklidetz, Print Market

Dasha Ilyashenko, KakDelArt

Yahel Nevo, Herzel House,