Trash Aesthetics. Visual Culture of Waste

Trash creates a unique aesthetic—chaos, wear and tear, random combinations of shapes and materials. This expressiveness is increasingly being used in fashion, advertising, and art as a source of new visual solutions. Could trash become a fully-fledged visual language of popular culture?

Garbage, one way or another, is perceived as something base and unpleasant. In this form, it can never enter the masses. Nevertheless, with certain transformations, and especially with claims of recycling or aestheticization, waste becomes a fully-fledged visual language of popular culture.