SYNERGY II Sculpture

AYS is a Husband-and-Wife artistic engineer and visual artist Duo of Artem Smirmov and Yulia Smirnova. The mix of their skills helps them to fearlessly combine the incombinable in their artistic search. Yulia and Artem use the upcycled waste objects as if they were traditional materials such as clay, wood, glass… They repurpose the everyday waste to express ideas, sensuality, beauty, or to obtain new conventional functions. Can the plastic waste trigger deep emotions or help to induce empathy? Can the waste reveal beauty or give a sensation of the new? Can it be transformed from ugly to beautiful and from useless to effective? All these questions are being researched by the AYS Duo. Artem and Yulia create sculptures, paintings with relief inclusions, interior decoration objects.