The main mission of the project is environmental ucation in the Urals. With the help of master classes, the lab wants to raise awareness of environmental issues and help solve them. We talk to Recycle Lab founder Artem plastic-working machines himself and in what direction he plans to develop the project.
Kristina Kalinovskaya
The craving for awareness The history of the laboratory began in 2020. Before Recycle Lab, Artem Malygin was into street art. The artist want to create not only aesthetic graffiti, but also meaningful ones, and that’s how he came up with unusual concepts.
He us portraits made from scrap materials
Including unnecessary things: for example, from old DVDs and beads. Later, Artem realiz that he could also reveal the idea of ecology. I always tri to find a use for old unnecessary things. For example, I didn’t throw away broken headphones, torn home owner database jeans, cardboard, DVDs and a whole bunch of other different trash.
I always thought that somay
I would be able to make something useful out of it. Artem Malygin founder of Recycle Lab Afterwards, Artem became interest in photography and creat a series of works call “Inside the Package” in frames made of melt plastic. He collect everything if they are not eliminat , the web resource’s usability he had at home for recycling, but this was not enough, and then Artem bought crush plastic from a household chemicals factory.
It was a large package of raw
Materials in large crumbs, and some pieces of material even had stickers from bottles and packages on them. Then the artist bought a small press: although the machine was initially sold for applying prints to clothes, the idea came that it would be ideal for creating sheets of plastic. “I brought plastic and a press to my friend’s balcony, and we start usa data creating,” he recalls. From this, plates were form.