The multimedia and interdisciplinary project of Lilia Li-Mi-Yan and Katherina Sadovsky arose at the junction of modern art, scientific discoveries in the field of polymer chemistry and a production base for plastic processing. The artists have been occupied for several years with the problems of ecology in the broadest sense of this concept, from the ecology of the environment and resources to the ecology of the social environment and consciousness. Thoughts about the future, attempts at philosophical understanding of what is happening in reality, are closely connected in their research work with activism and the search for new artistic solutions. In turn, the solutions found serve educational and campaigning activities. Such openness of aesthetic experiences in society is always colored ethically and politically. In other words, a new ethic is always looking for new aesthetic possibilities.
The project "Where is my plastic bag?" unexpectedly united cultural spaces and problems incompatible at first glance: a museum and a factory, a closed recycling cycle and a museum, garbage and a museum masterpiece, the art of the future and irrigation…
The objects obtained as a result of processing plastic garbage collected in the Pushkin Museum resemble both works of art and fantastic living "organs without bodies", to use the concept of the philosopher Rosie Braidotti.
Li-Mi-Yan and Sadovsky's Transparent Capsulesi gives eternal life to "biotrash", the remains of dead animals. Their urban objects are more like a strict inspection of today's urban spaces than their decoration: the new "vitalism" of their thoroughly artificial objects defiantly refuses the canon of landscape sculpture in the spirit of Henry Moore. The traditional author's self-affirmation is verified by the forms of the future world, utopian, but decisive in their world-affirmation.
