RECYCLE GROUP

The Recycle group is among those contemporary artists who do not announce their position too noisily, and, instead, prefer not so much to uncover problems or provoke confrontation as to look for compromises and the means of making peace between incompatible and competing aspects of the modern world — a world, of course, made up first and foremost of concepts and images, which are the traditional territory of artists.

Recycle’s approach, however, is less akin to the work done by negotiators, lawyers, or psychologists and resembles more that of computer specialists. Like them, members of Recycle concertedly dig through various cultural and visual ‘software,’ which has managed to grow into a thick layer on the hardware of collective consciousness, and try to identify conflicting ‘programs’ in order to force them not to interfere with each other.