Yearly, Russians throw a number of tens of hundreds of thousands of tons of rubbish into the trash. A part of the waste is shipped to rot on landfills, and the opposite is processed. The photographer Julia Vorobyova was impressed by this subject and created a sequence of pictures about rubbish and the way they rot greens, fruits and different merchandise. The artist will current her works on February 28 at an exhibition on the Moscow Museum of Trendy Artwork (MMOMA). Exposition Underneath the identify “abundance” will be seen till the top of April. The exhibition consists of nonetheless lifes made within the style of artwork images, in addition to installations, video works and academic supplies. Lenta.ru talked with the artist about the fantastic thing about fallen apples, makes an attempt to seek out expired merchandise, dinner from the rubbish and hazard to humanity.
“Lenta.ru”: Let’s begin with an apparent query, however nonetheless I can’t assist however ask. How did the concept of such a mission come up?
Julia Vorobyova: In precept, I actually like to have interaction in goal images and, like all artist, I’m at all times searching for an concept for my creative assertion. And now I used to be in some way within the nation, and there apples from timber fell from the timber. , like many, within the outdated tub, which is within the backyard. A lot of layers had been shaped there, and I received caught for it.
I appreciated the fantastic thing about decay and decomposition a lot
Photograph: Julia Vorobyova
That’s, you didn’t even assume that it might be a mission about changing and ecology?
No, at first I simply needed to seize the aesthetics of decomposition, as a result of it’s actually very lovely. That is an attention-grabbing texture, new colours seem. Right here we take a contemporary apple. It seems to be in a technique, and when it begins to rot, it instantly acquires attention-grabbing shades and form.
What had been you impressed while you labored on the mission?
For this mission, I used to be impressed by the Dutch and Flemish nonetheless lifes, in addition to an precise eco -legged. Within the XVII century, they targeted on the topic world of man. Within the technique of growing such a style as nonetheless life, the work of artists not solely demonstrated life, however typically carried a philosophical and reflective which means. So my nonetheless lifes ought to resemble nonetheless lifes of that period. There are messages in my works too. For instance, that we produce lots of rubbish, as well as, a few of its share is appropriate for consumption. Rubbish is part of our life and what maybe destroy humanity. On the identical time, my works look aesthetically engaging, like Dutch and Flemish nonetheless lifes. In any case, often rubbish is what repels, and I current it in such a approach that I wish to ponder it.
Photograph: Julia Vorobyova
After you will have this concept, what did you do subsequent? Went to the rubbish dumps?
Probably not. I believed: since I just like the aesthetics of the decay, you might want to discover it someplace. I started to search for chain shops that might give me meals waste, nevertheless it turned out to be not so easy.
Why? Did they really feel sorry for the expired items?
I approached the sellers in supermarkets, however didn’t speak in regards to the mission, however simply came upon if they may give me the merchandise that will be thrown away. In a single retailer they refused me. Then I came upon that many of the shops don’t give merchandise identical to that. A particular automotive involves them, which takes the waste and, apparently, instantly fortunate to the landfill.
Photograph: Julia Vorobyova
How did you handle to seek out materials for the photograph?
As soon as I went residence from work and went into one store-just ask in regards to the merchandise. And right here – Bingo! They instructed me: “Come at 11 pm, we lay out the delay within the again yard at the moment.” Briefly, I got here, and there have been already folks. It turned out that they lead such a lifestyle. In actual fact, such expired merchandise will be eaten. By the best way, some meals supply providers are additionally thrown out of their orders. Then I discovered a number of extra factors the place I can take meals waste.
Photograph: Julia Vorobyova
You your self ate one thing from the merchandise that you simply took?
I ate, however, it appears to me, you might want to morally come to this. I believed that if I make nonetheless lifes, then I must attempt merchandise. For instance, I got here throughout cool Turkish mini-mandarins. Then I attempted strawberries, nevertheless it turned out to be tasteless. Then there have been already ready shrimp, trout, pastries, confectionery.
Generally, I had complete dinners from the rubbish, and never solely dinners, your entire each day weight-reduction plan may very well be. And it was so scrumptious!
Photograph: Julia Vorobyova
How lengthy did the method of purchasing marketing campaign take till the capturing?
In actual fact, I did this for a really very long time, as a result of I didn’t instantly perceive the way it all ought to look. She started when Lokdown was, and completed greater than a 12 months later. I received 20-25 pictures, however lower than half received into the sequence. For one nonetheless life I had per week and a half, I might spend a number of days on the shoot. I needed to resolve on the composition of the nonetheless life, within the course of it may well change a number of occasions. As well as, I couldn’t afford to have interaction in creativity all day, I solely had evenings after work.
Let’s undergo what’s proven within the photograph. Some of the lovely nonetheless lifes, in my view, is the one with flowers. How did you do it?
About flowers is usually a separate story. I took flowers within the well-known flower market. There’s a container behind its territory. It’s straight large, and so I climbed there for flowers.
Photograph: Julia Vorobyova
Did you will have a particular tools for this?
I placed on garments that I didn’t really feel sorry, and gloves. In fact, I didn’t fall out within the mud, however, in fact, I washed all this each time I got here residence. By the best way, while you gather flowers, you might want to take the higher layers, as a result of they’re at all times compressed beneath. And contained in the container it’s felt that the flowers are heat from the flowers. Right here you climb within the winter for flowers, flip them and really feel steam.
There aren’t solely meals on nonetheless life, but in addition plastic, tape, wrapper. The place is it from?
That is packaging of meals and floral waste. I additionally collected it in the identical place the place merchandise and flowers. Someway there was simply an enormous piece of polyethylene. In the identical place, I additionally discovered baskets from eggs. Generally, all that’s on nonetheless lifes is rubbish, aside from black material. The nonetheless life must be balanced by colour, a big package deal helps so as to add native spots to the composition.
Photograph: Julia Vorobyova
Was it happy to have interaction on this mission? Nonetheless, the merchandise rot and in some unspecified time in the future start to scent unpleasantly.
I studied on the Faculty of Up to date Artwork, and the instructor instructed us that the artist mustn’t disdain something, he at all times extends the boundaries. That is simply meals, and it rot. We now have a rubbish bucket at every home. Over time, you get used to it, and by the best way, rotting merchandise can exude a nice aroma. For instance, apples or oranges.
What struck you essentially the most throughout the time of labor on this mission?
Most likely the truth that the units of completed meals are threw so rapidly after manufacturing. For instance, they did one thing two or three days in the past, and it’s already within the trash, and actually these are appropriate merchandise.
Photograph: Julia Vorobyova
Do you assume this mission can in some way have an effect on the attention of individuals and their client habits?
To be trustworthy, you by no means know what precisely will lead you to any resolution. My nonetheless lifes mirror a part of our life, our actuality. In fact, there’s a moralizing activity to affect folks, however the system must be modified globally. It is a severe redistribution of human life, as a result of we dwell in a consumption society by which the duty is to promote as a lot as potential. It appears to me that it is time to assume. It’s crucial to cut back the quantity of rubbish produced. All of it depends upon every individual, and globally on the governments.
