jessica andrey bogush

butterfly gina (to make love with drones)

For their show at Ars Libera gallery, Andrey Bogush combines printed screenshots, found photographs, and digital drawings laminated in butterfly-shaped cut-outs. The title of the exhibition quotes a passage from Paul B. Preciado’s book Apartment on Uranus, in which the author “reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism”. Employing the butterfly’s transformative character and its shape as a flat display for their transgressive images, Bogush presents a visceral introduction to their idiosyncratic research on flesh and desire.

Butterfly Gina (To make love with drones), Ars Libera Gallery, Kuopio, Finland, 2020

Proposal for butterfly cut out, head and computer game (The situation is like that of a bumble-bee which, by being there, became part of the genetic chain of the orchid), 2020

Proposal for yellow butterfly (But where was Eve?), 2020

detail: Proposal for yellow butterfly (But where was Eve?), 2020

Installation view at Andrey Bogush: Butterfly Gina (To make love with drones), Ars Libera Gallery, Kuopio, Finland, 2020

Proposal for butterfly cut out and spread legs (As a gay man it doesn’t make any sense that you are not supposed to join in when you enter a jack-off party), 2019

Installation view at Butterfly Gina (To make love with drones), Ars Libera Gallery, Kuopio, Finland

Hermaphrodite (Us living and dead)

Installation view at Andrey Bogush: Butterfly Gina (To make love with drones), Ars Libera Gallery, Kuopio, Finland, 2020